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The whole is more than the sum of the parts: establishing an enabling health system environment for reducing acute child malnutrition in a rural South African district
(Health Policy and Planning, 2019)
There is a gap in understanding of how national commitments to child nutrition are translated into sub-national implementation. This article is a mixed methods case study of a rural South African health district which ...
‘To be a woman is to make a plan’: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant in supporting children’s diets and nutrition in South Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)
Food security and good nutrition are key determinants
of child well-being. There is strong evidence that cash
transfers such as South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG)
have the potential to help address some of the ...
Prevalence of obesity and overweight in African learners: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)
Introduction: Obesity and overweight are an emerging problem in Africa. Obese children are at increased risk of developing hypertension, high cholesterol, orthopaedic problems and type 2 diabetes as well as increased risk ...
"Big Food", the consumer food environment, health and the policy response in South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Summary Points:
* In South Africa, as in other jurisdictions, ‘‘Big Food’’ (large commercial entities that dominate the food and beverage environment) is becoming more widespread and is implicated in unhealthy eating.
* ...
Use of social media platforms by manufacturers to market breast-milk substitutes in South Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
In South Africa (SA), exclusive breast feeding remains rare, with breast-milk substitutes (BMS) commonly being used in ways that are detrimental to infant and young child nutrition, health and survival. The use of internet, ...
Capacity-building for a strong public health nutrition workforce in lowresource countries
(World Health Organization, 2017)
Neglected for several decades, nutrition is now firmly on the development
agenda. Important landmarks are the
initiation of the Scaling Up Nutrition
movement in 2010; the adoption by
the World Health Assembly of ...
The experience of cash transfers in alleviating childhood poverty in South Africa: Mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant
(Routledge, 2014)
Cash transfer (CT) programmes are increasingly being used as policy instruments to
address child poverty and child health outcomes in developing countries. As the
largest cash-transfer programme in Africa, the South ...
Mapping obesogenic food environments in South Africa and Ghana: Correlations and contradictions
(MPDI, 2019)
In sub-Saharan Africa, urbanisation and food systems change contribute to rapid dietary transitions promoting obesity. It is unclear to what extent these changes are mediated by neighbourhood food environments or other ...
Challenges faced by the urban black South Africans in the prevention of non-communicable diseases
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2008)
This paper was conducted to describe some of the circumstances that increases the risk factors for
non-communicable diseases amongst the previously disadvantaged South African population. The work presented
here is based ...
Comparison of the ability of anthropometric indices to predict the risk of diabetes mellitus in South African males: Sanhanes-1
(MDPI, 2022)
This study aimed to assess the sensitivity of body mass index (BMI) to predict the risk of
diabetes mellitus (DM) and whether waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip (WHR) and waist-toheight
(WHtR) ratios are better ...