Report
12 Nov 2018
This synthesis summarizes the available evidence concerning the effectiveness of economic instruments (including taxes, price policies and incentives) in containing or reducing food consumption, particularly of foods high in saturated fats and other...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This review focuses on national and subnational Mediterranean diet (MD) and Nordic diet (ND) interventions and policies in the WHO European Region to support decision-makers in shaping context-specific diet and nutrition policies.
Report
12 Nov 2018
This publication provides information on the marketing of foods and beverages to children and the changes that have occurred in the last decade. It also examines the evolution of marketing methods and reviews some of the recent policy approaches by W...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This report highlights progress achieved in the WHO European Region and Member States in implementing the European food and nutrition action plan 2015–2020 and presents selected epidemiological data on the nutritional status of populations througho...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This action plan is intended to significantly reduce the burden of preventable diet-related noncommunicable diseases, obesity and all other forms of malnutrition still prevalent in the WHO European Region. It calls for countries to act, using a whole...
Publication
12 Nov 2018
This reports describes ways to prevent and manage diabetes, coronary heart diseases, and hypertension. It focuses on the four modifiable risk factors that are largely responsible for these diseases – tobacco use, unhealthy diet, lack of physical ac...
Guide
17 Oct 2018
The Nutrient Profile Model for the Pan American Health Organization – the PAHO NP Model – is designed to be used as a tool in the design and implementation of various regulatory strategies related to the prevention and control of obesity/overweig...
Report
17 Oct 2018
The Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America and the Caribbean 2017, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), reports for the first time on the pro...
Report
17 Oct 2018
The Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America and the Caribbean 2017, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), reports for the first time on the pro...
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This document provides Member States with the rationale and key strategic lines of action for comprehensive public health interventions to halt the progression of the obesity epidemic in children and adolescents.
Report
17 Oct 2018
The main goal of this resolution is to call on Member States to prioritize the prevention of obesity and diabetes and their common risk factors by establishing and/or strengthening policies and programs, integrating them into public and private healt...
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This document presents the resolution to endorse the Strategy and approve the Plan of Action on Epilepsy and their implementation under the particular conditions of each country to provide an appropriate response to current and future needs.
