Project title: Developing evidence and action towards a double-duty food-based policy bundle to ensure healthier diets in Ghana (Healthier Diets for Healthy Lives Project) The Healthier Diets for Healthy Lives (HD4HL) Project is seeking highly qualified individuals to apply for a PhD Studentship tenable at the University of Ghana. The details applicable to the position […]
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The University of Ghana, Ministry of Health, FDA, NDPC, and CAPHA Awarded a Grant to Develop Healthy Food Environment Policies
Professor Amos Laar of the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, and his team have been awarded a grant by The Rockefeller Foundation and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC-Canada). The award ceremony took place during the launch of a project, titled, ‘Developing evidence and action toward a double-duty food-based policy bundle to […]
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All you need to know about Ghana’s policy bundle initiative on healthier diets
The Ministry of Health and its partners have launched a “double-duty policy bundle initiative” to assure healthier diets and reduce the double burden of malnutrition in Ghana Despite the prevalence of infectious diseases, undernutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are expected to become the primary cause of mortality in Africa by 2030. Suboptimal diets […]
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Ghana tackles non-communicable diseases through healthier diets
A coalition of government agencies, including the Ministry of Health, Food and Drugs Authority, persons in academia as well as civil society is on a move to eradicating non-communicable diseases and undernutrition among others through a collaboration that will establish the evidence, tools, policy pathways, and evaluation to ensure effective and healthy food systems in […]
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Suboptimal Diets contributes to various diseases-Hon. Agyeman Manu
The Minister for Health, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has disclosed that, suboptimal diets are cardinal contributors to increasing the risk of various diseases, whose impacts on health and economic systems are staggering. ” Subject experts tell us that population diets are influenced by food environments. They also tell us that unhealthy food environments stymie efforts to […]
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Healthier Diets for Healthy Lives Project launched in Accra
It is estimated that non-communicable diseases will become the leading cause of death in Africa amidst prevailing challenges of infectious diseases, undernutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies. Research suggests that unhealthy food environments hinder progress in overcoming malnutrition as well as non-communicable diseases. There is also increasing evidence for and recognition of the effectiveness of a set […]
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Suboptimal Diets increases the risk of various diseases-Health Minister
The Minister for Health, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has disclosed that, suboptimal diets are cardinal contributors to increasing the risk of various diseases, whose impacts on health and economic systems are staggering. ” Subject experts tell us that population diets are influenced by food environments. They also tell us that unhealthy food environments stymie efforts to […]
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Health Minister Launches HD4HL Project
The Ministry of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has launched the Developing evidence and action toward a double-duty food-based policy bundle to assure healthier diets in Ghana”. This Project is being co-implemented by a coalition of government agencies (including the Ministry of Health, Food and Drugs Authority, National Development Planning Commission), Academia (led by the University of […]
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Health Minister launches Healthier Diets for Healthy Lives (HD4HL) Project in Accra
Health Minister has launched Healthier Diets for Healthy Lives (HD4HL) Project in Accra Source: newswiregh.com/YouTube
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