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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Regional expert meeting on policy action for healthy diets, with a focus on the Gulf Cooperation Council countries 1

Publication

03 Jan 2024

WHO has been supporting EMR Member States in their efforts to achieve nutrition-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the global and regional nutrition targets. Some progress has been made, and more technical support is needed to accelerat...

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PAN American Health Organization (PAHO)

Nutritional Care Guide for Pediatric Cancer

Guide

15 Aug 2023

This guide has been developed as part of the World Health Organization's Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, known as "Cure All Americas," with the primary purpose of alleviating the challenges faced by pediatric oncology patients. Its mission is...

GuideReportCancerNutrition and food safetyPhysical inactivityUnhealthy diets+3

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World Health Organization

WHO acceleration plan to stop obesity

Guide

26 Jun 2023

At the 75th World Health Assembly in 2022, Member States adopted new recommendations for the prevention and management of obesity and endorsed the WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity. (A75_REC1) . The WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity is design...

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World Health Organization

Health service delivery framework for prevention and management of obesity

18 May 2023

Multisectoral efforts to influence behaviours around healthy diet and exercise, while essential, have been insufficient to halt the rising prevalence of obesity. While these efforts must continue and escalate, it is now imperative to also deliver a c...

Health system strengthening, including governance and financingNutrition and food safetyPrimary health careUnhealthy diets+1

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WHO Regional Office of the Eastern Mediterranean

Stories from the field: sharing successful strategies from the Eastern Mediterranean Region in mitigating noncommunicable diseases and mental health disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

01 Jan 2023

This publication concentrates on unpublished accounts of what Eastern Mediterranean Region countries have done to address noncommunicable diseases and mental health issues, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is not to give a comple...

Multisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationAccess to essential medicines and servicesCommunicable diseasesEnvironment, climate change and healthHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingNutrition and food safetyPrimary health care+5

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World Health Organization

Health Taxes: Policy and Practice

Publication

01 Jan 2023

Virtually all fiscal measures influence people's health, through their impacts on behaviour, consumption, income and wealth. A narrow subset of fiscal measures, however, can be more directly aimed at improving health by targeting behaviours and risks...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingNutrition and food safetyHarmful use of alcoholTobacco useUnhealthy diets+7

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Science Direct: Trends in Food Science & Technology

ICONIC: An international task force supporting collaboration in nutrition and cancer globally

Publication

15 Aug 2022

Background Cancer represents a major cause of mortality globally and by 2050 will be the major cause of ill health and death across the world, most particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). For forty years, there has been increasing...

PublicationCancerNutrition and food safetyPhysical inactivityUnhealthy diets+2

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World Obesity Federation, Health and Climate Network

Brief: Diet and Food Systems for Health, Climate and Planet (Youth)

Briefs & Fact Sheets

06 Apr 2022

Young people are working at the forefront of the climate, health, and food agenda.&nbsp;To capitalise on the experience and expertise of youth, World Obesity Federation convened a workshop with young people to help develop their priorities based on t...

Briefs & Fact SheetsNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets

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World Obesity Federation

Addressing weight stigma and misconceptions about obesity

Briefs & Fact Sheets

25 Feb 2022

With the prevalence of overweight and obesity rising globally, people living with obesity are constantly shamed and blamed for their disease.&nbsp;But like other chronic diseases, the root causes of obesity run much deeper and can be genetic, psychol...

Briefs & Fact SheetsMeaningful Engagement of People with Lived ExperiencesNutrition and food safetyPhysical inactivity+1

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World Bank

Food Finance Architecture : Financing a Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Food System (English)

Report

22 Oct 2021

Today’s food systems generate 12 trillion dollars in hidden social, economic and environmental costs. Implementing five "food finance imperatives" would not only reduce these costs but help unlock 4.5 trillion dollars in new business opportunities...

ReportNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets

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NCD Child

Childhood obesity on the rise during COVID-19: A request for global leaders to change the trajectory

Publication

21 Sep 2021

Childhood obesity has been rising in all world regions; 2019 estimates were that 158 million children aged 5 to 19 years are living with obesity, of whom many live in low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs). However, there has been limited to no progr...

PublicationMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthNutrition and food safetyPhysical inactivityUnhealthy diets+2

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

World Food Safety Day 2021

Publication

15 Sep 2021

With a theme of ‘Safe food now for a heathy tomorrow’, World Food Safety Day (7 June 2021) focused on the immediate and long-term benefits of producing and consuming safe food. It was a day to remember that food safety is part of food security an...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseMental Health and Neurological ConditionsCommunicable diseasesNutrition and food safety+3

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