Obesidad infantil en Argentina


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Acercarse a la obesidad infantil desde la perspectiva de la salud internacional es un intento de cuestionar su tradicional concepción como problema sanitario, revelándola en una red de complejas interacciones que trascienden los comportamientos individuales del comer y gastar. Este trabajo se basa sobre las tensiones y conflictos que permean la problemática del exceso de peso infantil, donde los juegos entre actores, las prioridades de la agenda pública, las jerarquías de poder y los intereses contrapuestos condicionan los modos de comer. Es el resultado de un trabajo de investigación realizado en Argentina pero donde las categorías abordadas podrían aplicarse a cualquier país latinoamericano, reproduciendo resultados comunes en contextos heterogéneos. El aporte se centra en la afirmación de que existen fuerzas internacionales que condicionan los entornos alimentarios tanto a nivel nacional como local, de manera tal que pueden promover u obstaculizar la proyección de políticas alimentarias y nutricionales.




Sobrepeso-Obesidad En Escolares


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La obesidad infantil es uno de los problemas de salud publica mas graves del siglo XXI. La Organizacion Mundial de la Salud lo califica como epidemia ya que su prevalencia ha aumentado a un ritmo alarmante. La influencia genetica se asocia a los habitos de alimentacion y estilos de vida sedentarios. Los ninos con obesidad y sobrepeso tienden a seguir con exceso de peso en la edad adulta y tienen mas probabilidades de padecer enfermedades cronicas no transmisibles a edades mas tempranas. Se describen los hallazgos en escolares que residen en una ciudad del sur de Argentina, caracterizada por vientos constantes y frios que condicionan habitos de vida en ambientes cerrados. Donde las familias se trasladan en vehiculo la mayor parte del tiempo, con incremento de ingestas alimentarias en cantidad y no necesariamente en calidad por las diferentes ocupaciones, con tiempos breves para la preparacion de las comidas, y disminucion de la practica de actividades al aire libre. El presente libro ademas de servir como punta de investigacion sobre la problematica, senala la necesidad de buscar mejores estrategias de prevencion."




Obesidad infantil


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Healthy Children


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Social Policies and Emotions


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This book analyzes the connections between social policies and politics of sensibilities. The authors show how social policies build sociabilities, experiences and sensibilities, producing processes of conflict avoidance and consecration of the given. After discussing violence against women as a case study in order to understand the current state of social policies, the authors then describe how the “place” and “value” of education have become central features to social policies in order to disband conflict. Finally, they explain the emergence of a social phenomenon in the last sixteen years in Latin America and particularly Argentina: the compensatory consumption system and the resulting emergence of the “assisted citizen.”




Regional Overview of Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean


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Latin America and the Caribbean managed to reduce the number of undernourished by 20 million compared to the year 2000. However, 2018 marks the fourth consecutive year in which hunger shows a continuous increases. Moderate or severe food insecurity in Latin America increased considerably. This increase caused more than 32 million people to join the almost 155 million who lived in food insecurity in the Region in 2014-2016. The Region has shown significant progress in reducing child malnutrition and it is significantly distant and below the global prevalence of malnutrition in girls and boys. However, malnutrition due to excessive weight in the Region is one of the highest in the world and it continues to increase. This year, the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean focuses on food environments and describes some of the main policies that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are developing to face the different forms of malnutrition.




WHO country stories: delivering for all


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Along with the Impact Measurement and the Output Scorecard, country case studies are one of the three components of WHO’s results reporting framework. These set of rich country case studies come directly from the field and highlight WHO’s key successes realized over the recent past. They cover achievements and results across a wide spectrum of areas to deliver on the promise of the triple billion targets. The collection of case studies responds to the request of WHO’s donors and partners to provide additional information on both the diversity of settings, in which WHO is currently working at country level and the variety of approaches that the Organization is using to better serve its Member States. This publication will complement the 2023 WHO Midterm Results Report and will be available to WHO Member States, partners, and donors online on WHO’s public webpages. Each story is directly linked to a GPW13 outcome and provides a snapshot of the Organization’s range of efforts to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.







Current List of Medical Literature


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Includes section, "Recent book acquisitions" (varies: Recent United States publications) formerly published separately by the U.S. Army Medical Library.





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