Building Capacity and Advancing Regulatory Measures to Improve Food Environments in the Region of the Americas
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. The Workshop Design
2.2. Workshop Description
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Regional Capacity-Building Needs
3.2. Regional Capacity-Building Actions
4. Discussion
Strengths and Limitations
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
CAPACITY-BUILDING NEEDS | |
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Category 1: Infrastructure |
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Category 2: Policy efforts |
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Category 3: Informationsystems |
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Category 2: Policy efforts |
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Category 3: Information systems |
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Appendix B
CAPACITY-BUILDING FRAMEWORK CATEGORIES | |
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Category 1: Infrastructure | Financial and human resources
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Category 2: Policy efforts | Conflict of interests
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Category 3: Information systems | Observatories
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Appendix C
CAPACITY-BUILDING FRAMEWORK CATEGORIES | ||
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Capacity-Building Actions | Actors’ Roles * | |
Category 1: Infrastructure | Key actors and connections 1,2,4
| Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs, NGOs, academia ______________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs, NGOs, academia ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO, CSOs, NGOs, academia ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs, NGOs, academia ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs, NGOs ___________________________ Government officials, CSOs, NGOs ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs |
Category 2: Policy efforts | Bans 1,2,3,4,5
| Government officials ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs, NGOs, academia ___________________________ Government officials, public health advocates ___________________________ Government officials, CSOs, public health advocates ___________________________ Government officials, CSOs, public health advocates ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs, academia ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, academia ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, academia ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, academia ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, public health advocates ___________________________ Government officials, CSOs |
Category 3: Information Systems | Country level data 1,2,5
| Government officials, PAHO/WHO ___________________________ PAHO/WHO, government officials, CSOs ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, academia ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSO ___________________________ Government officials, PAHO/WHO, CSOs, academia ___________________________ PAHO/WHO, CSOs, academia ___________________________ Government officials, NGOs, CSOs |
Priority challenges that can hinder all actions | ||
Conflicts of interest 1,2,3,4,5
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Actors | Total (n = 126) |
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Government | 74 |
PAHO/WHO | 20 |
CSOs | 19 |
Academia | 13 |
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Levis, C.; Mejía Toro, C.; Patiño, S.R.G.; Villalobos-Daniel, V.E.; Spinillo, C.; Gomes, F.d.S. Building Capacity and Advancing Regulatory Measures to Improve Food Environments in the Region of the Americas. Nutrients 2024, 16, 1202. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16081202
Levis C, Mejía Toro C, Patiño SRG, Villalobos-Daniel VE, Spinillo C, Gomes FdS. Building Capacity and Advancing Regulatory Measures to Improve Food Environments in the Region of the Americas. Nutrients. 2024; 16(8):1202. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16081202
Chicago/Turabian StyleLevis, Carmen, Carolina Mejía Toro, Sofía Rincón Gallardo Patiño, Victor Eduardo Villalobos-Daniel, Carla Spinillo, and Fabio da Silva Gomes. 2024. "Building Capacity and Advancing Regulatory Measures to Improve Food Environments in the Region of the Americas" Nutrients 16, no. 8: 1202. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16081202
APA StyleLevis, C., Mejía Toro, C., Patiño, S. R. G., Villalobos-Daniel, V. E., Spinillo, C., & Gomes, F. d. S. (2024). Building Capacity and Advancing Regulatory Measures to Improve Food Environments in the Region of the Americas. Nutrients, 16(8), 1202. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16081202