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Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environment Policy Index
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)Government action is essential to increase the healthiness of food environments and reduce obesity, diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and their related inequalities. This paper proposes a monitoring framework ... -
Monitoring and evaluation of sport-based HIV/AIDS awareness programmes: strengthening outcome indicators
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)There are number of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in South Africa that use sport as a tool to respond to Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), however, little is reported about ... -
Monitoring and evaluation of sports as a tool in HIV/AIDS awareness programmes: Experiences of five selected Non- Governmental Organisations in South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2017)Sport has increasingly been used as a vehicle for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) awareness programmes, and the use of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has become evident in the ... -
Monitoring food and non-alcoholic beverage promotions to children
(Wiley, 2013)Food and non-alcoholic beverage marketing is recognized as an important factor influencing food choices related to non-communicable diseases. The monitoring of populations’ exposure to food and nonalcoholic beverage ... -
Monitoring foods and beverages provided and sold in public sector settings
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)This paper outlines a step-wise framework for monitoring foods and beverages provided or sold in publicly funded institutions. The focus is on foods in schools, but the framework can also be applied to foods provided ... -
Monitoring healthcare improvement for mothers and newborns: A quantitative review of WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA standards using every mother every mewborn assessment tools
(Frontiers Media, 2022)Assessment tools with the ability to capture WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA standard quality-of-care measures are needed. This study aimed to assess the ability of Every Mother Every Newborn (EMEN) tools to capture WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA ... -
Monitoring policy and actions on food environments: rationale and outline of the INFORMAS policy engagement and communication stategies
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)The International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS) proposes to collect performance indicators on food policies, actions and environments related ... -
Monitoring the health-related labelling of foods and non-alcoholic beverages in retail settings
(Wiley, 2013)Food labelling on food packaging has the potential to have both positive and negative effects on diets. Monitoring different aspects of food labelling would help to identify priority policy options to help people make ... -
Monitoring the impacts of trade agreements on food environments
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)The liberalization of international trade and foreign direct investment through multilateral, regional and bilateral agreements has had profound implications for the structure and nature of food systems, and therefore, ... -
Monitoring the levels of important nutrients in the food supply
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)A food supply that delivers energy-dense products with high levels of salt, saturated fats and trans fats, in large portion sizes, is a major cause of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The highly processed foods produced ... -
Monitoring the price and affordability of foods and diets globally
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)Food prices and food affordability are important determinants of food choices, obesity and non-communicable diseases. As governments around the world consider policies to promote the consumption of healthier foods, data ... -
Motivational determinants of physical activity in disadvantaged populations with (pre)diabetes: A cross-cultural comparison
(Research Square, 2021)Understanding motivational determinants of physical activity (PA) is essential to guide the implementation of PA at individual and population level. Knowledge about the cross-cultural generalizability of these determinants ... -
Multilevel governance and control of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Learning from the four first waves
(MDPI, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impose a heavy burden on people around the world. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has also been affected. The objective of this study was to explore national policy responses ... -
Multimorbidity patterns in a national HIV survey of South African youth and adults
(Frontiers Media, 2022)Introduction: Information pertaining to multimorbidity is frequently informed by studies from high income countries and it is unclear how these findings relate to low and middle income countries, where the burden of ... -
Multimorbidity patterns in a national HIV survey of South African youth and adults
(Frontiers Media, 2022)Information pertaining to multimorbidity is frequently informed by studies from high income countries and it is unclear how these findings relate to low and middle income countries, where the burden of infectious disease ... -
Multimorbidity patterns in South Africa: A latent class analysis
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2023)Introduction: South Africa has the largest burden of HIV worldwide and has a growing burden of non-communicable diseases; the combination of which may lead to diseases clustering in ways that are not seen in other regions. ... -
Multimorbidity patterns in South Africa: A latent class analysis
(Frontiers in Public Health, 2023)Introduction: South Africa has the largest burden of HIV worldwide and has a growing burden of non-communicable diseases; the combination of which may lead to diseases clustering in ways that are not seen in other regions. ... -
Multiple forms of discrimination and internalized stigma compromise retention in HIV care among adolescents: findings from a South African cohort
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)Efficacious antiretroviral treatment (ART) enables people to live long and healthy lives with HIV but young people are dying from AIDS-related causes more than ever before. Qualitative evidence suggest that various forms ... -
The multiple lenses on the community health system: Implications for policy, practice and research
(2021-07)Community health systems (CHSs) have historically been approached from multiple perspectives, with different purposes and methodological and disciplinary orientations. The terrain is, on the one hand, vast and diverse. ... -
Multiple pathways to scaling up and sustainability: An exploration of digital health solutions in South Africa
(BMC, 2021)With the aim to support further understanding of scaling up and sustaining digital health, we explore digital health solutions that have or are anticipated to reach national scale in South Africa: the Perinatal ...