{"title":"Comunidades protagonistas en el logro de estilos de vida saludables","authors":"Z. Alarcón-Luengo","doi":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70002-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70002-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The promotion of health and nutrition is aimed to improve life conditions and the development of societies, where the communities have the leading role towards change. The <em>Centro de Atención Nutricional Infantil Antímano</em> (Antímano Center for the Attention to Child Nutrition), implements from the preventive care, a program for Community Nutrition in a suburban zone of Caracas for the purpose of turning the community into the leaders to attain a healthy lifestyle.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The strategic guidelines are oriented towards: increasing population awareness, training community health promoters (PCS), seeking to incorporate teachers, parents, children and teenagers, nursery and preschool personnel and workers from primary health attention centers.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>96% of the community has been involved, 4,991 persons motivated into action; 297 organizations; 63 productive alliances; 327 PCS's; 83% of school participation, 66% implementing adequate breakfasts; nutritional counseling and education in 68% of preschools and 100% in nurseries; diagnosis improvement (39 to 100%) in referrals from outpatient clinics to CANIA.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusiones</h3><p>The action is based on exchange of knowledge and increase of awareness about reality and the orientations, on how to do what must be done from the perspective of each actor within its context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49611,"journal":{"name":"Revista Espanola De Nutricion Comunitaria","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 2-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70002-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56685736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiencia venezolana en la promoción de salud con las frutas y hortalizas: un reto posible","authors":"M.S. Tapia , C. Olaizola-López , E. Delgado-Mora","doi":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70012-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70012-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a growing epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD) related to changes in eating habits and unhealthy lifestyles. Chronic diseases are also among the leading causes of mortality in Venezuela. The “5aday” initiative is being promoted in the country since year 2006 by the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). The UCV has been trying to disseminate the campaign and get support from other institutions and sectors of society interested in increasing awareness of the health benefits associated to consumption of fruits and vegetables, as well as a of physical activity. This paper presents some strategies employed to promote the campaign in the country, taking advantage of opportunities offered by the existing legal framework that have enabled actions at community level. There has been also support from the area of social responsibility of companies. Efforts continue trying to increase adherence of partners from other national sectors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49611,"journal":{"name":"Revista Espanola De Nutricion Comunitaria","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 45-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70012-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56685858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nutrición comunitaria y sostenibilidad: concepto y evidencias","authors":"L. Serra-Majem","doi":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70010-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70010-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In community nutrition, sustainability refers to the ability of the program or intervention to continue over time in line with local and global economic, human and environmental resources.</p><p>We can differentiate the sustainability into two major conceptual areas: The sustainability of community nutrition programs, understood as autonomy and self-financing or external independence, and the sustainability of agricultural, livestock and nutritional policies with respect to the environment.</p><p>Food production exerst distinct effects on the geophysical environment, such as the degradation of species, the emission of toxins, air pollution and water consumption.</p><p>The changes in diet related to reducing animal products and increasing vegetable comsumption not only produce benefits for human health and on the overall utilization of land, but can also play a decisive role in the policies of climate change mitigation. The Mediterranean, being understood not only as a concrete set of foods but also as a cultural incorporating the ways foods are produced and processed, is an example of sustainability, in wich biodiversity is also key.</p><p>Sustainability should be considered as a fundamental element when planning and defining community nutrition interventions and should constitute a key issue in the agenda for climate change mitigation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49611,"journal":{"name":"Revista Espanola De Nutricion Comunitaria","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 35-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70010-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56685786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nuevos retos de la nutrición comunitaria","authors":"J. Aranceta-Bartrina","doi":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70013-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70013-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The growing scientific and epidemiological evidence on the relationship diet and health has attracted the interest to enhance the qualitative nutritional profile that could positively impact the genesis of chronic diseases, the quality of life, physical and intellectual potential and longevity. As a result, in recent decades has driven the development of community strategies of nutritional surveillance and health promotion through healthy eating habits and giving rise to community nutrition.</p><p>The main practical functions that are developed in a community nutrition unit are to identify and assess nutritional problems of the community and to design, organize, implement, and evaluate nutrition intervention programs including occupational environment-oriented strategies, school-based interventions and programs targeted to high risk groups or to the general population. The community interventions aim to gradually adequate the nutritional pattern towards a healthier profile. Community nutrition programs require to combine different strategies in a multidisciplinary team approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49611,"journal":{"name":"Revista Espanola De Nutricion Comunitaria","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 51-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70013-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124022799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Bonvecchio-Arenas, F.L. Theodore, S. Hernández-Cordero, F. Campirano-Núñez, A.L. Islas, M. Safdie, J.A. Rivera-Dommarco
{"title":"La escuela como alternativa en la prevención de la obesidad: la experiencia en el sistema escolar mexicano","authors":"A. Bonvecchio-Arenas, F.L. Theodore, S. Hernández-Cordero, F. Campirano-Núñez, A.L. Islas, M. Safdie, J.A. Rivera-Dommarco","doi":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70005-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70005-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>26% of school children in Mexico are overweight or obese (OW/OB), which means a 33% increase in 7 years.</p></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><p>To design, implement and evaluate a strategy to modify the school environment in order to promote healthy lifestyles through physical activity and food habits to prevent OW/OB in children in public schools in Mexico city.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Formative research to diagnose the environment and design the intervention. Evaluation by means of an experimental design in randomly selected intervention and control schools.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>School environment contributes to energy imbalance, promotes consumption of energy dense foods and beverages and limits the opportunities to practice physical activity. Strategies focused on food habits, physical activity and communication were implemented during two school years in 16 schools. The intervention reduced the offer of energy dense foods, increased the availability of fruits, vegetables and water to drink. Limited changes were observed at individual level, although changes show a trend towards positive effects of the intervention on behaviours and their determinants.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The intervention modified the school environment but a more intense and permanent effort is required to change behaviours at individual level.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49611,"journal":{"name":"Revista Espanola De Nutricion Comunitaria","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 13-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70005-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56685753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Desafíos de la nutrición comunitaria en Latinoamérica","authors":"M. Montilva de Mendoza","doi":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70011-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70011-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A process of alimentary and nutritional transition happens in Latin America. It is characterized for changes in the pattern of food consumption and the nutritional state, observing high prevalence of growth retardation and overweight and obesity in the different age groups. In view of the nutritional and socioeconomic facts, it constitutes a big challenge to achieve the effectiveness, sustainability and equity of the communitarian programs for Latin America. For that reason, it is necessary: to guide the efforts towards the prevention in the spectrum of nutritional conditions from malnutrition to obesity, taking into account the cultural diversity and social disparities; to make fair decisions about in which groups is more important to have influence; to assess and spread the programs independently of their results; to know those success experiences better in order to adjust them to different populations; to share the created products and the models of assessment to decrease expenses and effort; to capacitate technically the communities to maximize the participation, sustainability and coverage of the programs; to get involved in determining factors of the problems through the multisectorial participation, joining actions and politics of the government with the ones of communities and institutions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49611,"journal":{"name":"Revista Espanola De Nutricion Comunitaria","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 41-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70011-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56685809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nutrición y participación comunitaria en las acciones de la Fundación Bengoa","authors":"E. Patiño-Simancas, M. Landaeta-Jiménez","doi":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70009-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70009-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The aim of the Community Nutrition Foundation Bengoa program is to develop and strengthen skills and attitudes in food and nutrition in order to train leaders and multipliers in defence of the rights to food and health. It is developed through social projects in poor communities. This is possible through the joint institutions, organizations and companies who are committed to working with, to and from the community. The programme has several components: food and nutrition education, nutritional surveillance, participation, food security, environment, institutional coordination, and service management which are executed according to the mode of the project. The core training is the food and nutrition education. The Bengoa Foundation in nine years, has developed 16 projects in more than 80 Venezuelan communities. With one of his allies, pharmacy SAAS, for the last four years has been running a programme of education against malnutrition, which has produced six pieces of television and printed nutritional guidelines to communities. The community initiatives are effective to modify certain realities but essentially allow to increase awareness among all relevant stakeholders in the community, increase competence in the use of strategies and tools, provide new technologies to stimulate educational processes and generate changes that promote healthy living habits.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49611,"journal":{"name":"Revista Espanola De Nutricion Comunitaria","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 30-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1135-3074(10)70009-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56685775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}