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An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Strategic Plan 2020–2025 committed to reduce children’s consumption of energy-dense nutrient-poor food and beverage products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) and promote healthy eating patterns to reduce malnutrition in all forms. This paper describes th...

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Autores principales: Patiño, Sofía Rincón-Gallardo, Da Silva Gomes, Fabio, Constantinou, Steven, Lemaire, Robin, Hedrick, Valisa E., Serrano, Elena L., Kraak, Vivica I.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8394636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444077
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168324
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author Patiño, Sofía Rincón-Gallardo
Da Silva Gomes, Fabio
Constantinou, Steven
Lemaire, Robin
Hedrick, Valisa E.
Serrano, Elena L.
Kraak, Vivica I.
author_facet Patiño, Sofía Rincón-Gallardo
Da Silva Gomes, Fabio
Constantinou, Steven
Lemaire, Robin
Hedrick, Valisa E.
Serrano, Elena L.
Kraak, Vivica I.
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description The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Strategic Plan 2020–2025 committed to reduce children’s consumption of energy-dense nutrient-poor food and beverage products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) and promote healthy eating patterns to reduce malnutrition in all forms. This paper describes the capacity-building needs in PAHO’s Member States to restrict the marketing of HFSS food and beverages to children. We asked Ministries of Health officials or national institutes/departmental representatives (n = 35) to complete a 28-item web-based survey (January to July 2020). Capacity-building needs were assessed using an adapted version of the World Health Organization’s government capacity-building framework with three modules: public health infrastructure, policies and information systems. Notable achievements for the PAHO’s Plan of Action were identified. State representatives reported strong infrastructure and information systems; however, policy improvements are needed to increase comprehensive national responses. These include using a constitutional health and human rights approach within the policies, policies that document conflict of interest from non-state actors, and strengthening regulatory oversight for digital media platforms. These findings provide baseline data and we suggest priorities for further action to strengthen national governments’ capacity-building and to accelerate the development, implementation, and monitoring systems to restrict the marketing of HFSS food and non-alcoholic beverages to children in the region of the Americas.
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spelling pubmed-83946362021-08-28 An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas Patiño, Sofía Rincón-Gallardo Da Silva Gomes, Fabio Constantinou, Steven Lemaire, Robin Hedrick, Valisa E. Serrano, Elena L. Kraak, Vivica I. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Strategic Plan 2020–2025 committed to reduce children’s consumption of energy-dense nutrient-poor food and beverage products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) and promote healthy eating patterns to reduce malnutrition in all forms. This paper describes the capacity-building needs in PAHO’s Member States to restrict the marketing of HFSS food and beverages to children. We asked Ministries of Health officials or national institutes/departmental representatives (n = 35) to complete a 28-item web-based survey (January to July 2020). Capacity-building needs were assessed using an adapted version of the World Health Organization’s government capacity-building framework with three modules: public health infrastructure, policies and information systems. Notable achievements for the PAHO’s Plan of Action were identified. State representatives reported strong infrastructure and information systems; however, policy improvements are needed to increase comprehensive national responses. These include using a constitutional health and human rights approach within the policies, policies that document conflict of interest from non-state actors, and strengthening regulatory oversight for digital media platforms. These findings provide baseline data and we suggest priorities for further action to strengthen national governments’ capacity-building and to accelerate the development, implementation, and monitoring systems to restrict the marketing of HFSS food and non-alcoholic beverages to children in the region of the Americas. MDPI 2021-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8394636/ /pubmed/34444077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168324 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Patiño, Sofía Rincón-Gallardo
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Hedrick, Valisa E.
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An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas
title An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas
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title_fullStr An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas
title_full_unstemmed An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas
title_short An Assessment of Government Capacity Building to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Products to Children in the Region of the Americas
title_sort assessment of government capacity building to restrict the marketing of unhealthy food and non-alcoholic beverage products to children in the region of the americas
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8394636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444077
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168324
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