Alba Martínez-García

• University of Alicante

Background/Objectives: Unhealthy dietary habits are associated with chronic non-communicable diseases and may contribute to increased mortality in all countries of the world. Food environments determine the accessibility, availability, and promotion of food, thus playing an important role in people’s diets, but they are context-dependent. The aim o...

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the nutritional quality of mid-afternoon snacks for schooled children aged 3 to 12 years in three areas of Catalonia (Spain). Methods: A descriptive observational study collected information on habits and the mid-afternoon snack of 782 schooled children aged 3 to 12 years in three cities, Barcelona,...

Childhood obesity is a relevant public health problem. The school food environment has been identified as an important factor for promoting healthy eating behaviors. This study assessed the availability of and proximity to unhealthy food stores around schools (n = 22) in the city of Barcelona and its association with neighborhood socioeconomic stat...

Objective Although food environments have been highlighted as potentially effective targets to improve population diets, evidence on Mediterranean food environments is lacking. We examined differences in food availability and affordability in Madrid (Spain) by store type and area-level socioeconomic status. Design Cross-sectional study. Trained re...

Social determinants of health are a major contributing factor to health inequalities and have important effects on the health of the population. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of overweight/obesity in native and immigrant children aged 2-14 years residing in Spain, and to explore its relationship with socioeconomic factors, hab...

Background Fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake is an important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Fiscal policies have been recommended to increase F&V consumption, but their potential impact on health and inequalities are not well described.We therefore explored the potential benefits of five different fiscal policies on F&V con...

Fundamentos: La pérdida de los referentes alimentarios, culinarios y gastronómicos propios de la dieta mediterránea, se traduce en un deterioro del estado nutricional y en una mayor incidencia de sobrepeso, obesidad y problemas de salud asociados, entre otras consecuencias. Frente al alejamiento de los parámetros de la cultura alimentaria mediterrá...

Individuals' perceptions of their food environments are a mediator between exposure to the environment and people's interaction with it. The Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys (NEMS) are valid and reliable measures to assess food environments. In Spain, there is no adapted instrument to measure the perceived obesogenic environment. This article...

The Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys are valid and reliable measures of community and consumer food environments. This article describes the adaptation and evaluation of the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey in Stores (NEMS-S) for Mediterranean urban contexts (NEMS-S-MED). Trained raters used the adapted NEMS-S-MED tool to observe and rat...

What is the effectiveness of Vitamin D in the treatment of COVID-19? Searches Our literature search was devised using the following approach: 1. Identification of terms relevant to the population and intervention components of the search strategy, using Word2vec technology to the corpus of documents available in Epistemonikos Database. 2. Discussio...

Fundamentos: La promoción de la salud es una herramienta básica para dar respuesta a los problemas de salud proporcionando mejor calidad de vida y bienestar en la población y el ámbito escolar es un elemento clave para la promoción y adquisición de buenos hábitos alimentarios, pero requiere de una correcta formación de los profesionales para que se...

The rise in obesity prevalence has increased research interest in the obesogenic environment and its influence on excess weight. The aim of the present study was to review and map data collection instruments for obesogenic environments in adults in order to provide an overview of the existing evidence and enable comparisons. Through the scoping rev...

Background: fibromyalgia is a disease of unknown origin characterized by chronic muscular pain. The lack of knowledge about this disease is one of the main causes that makes complex to make a diagnosis and an appropriate treatment. Objective: the main objective of this study was to know the efficacy of a physiotherapy treatment combined with a l...

Introducción: La obesidad y el sobrepeso son uno de los principales factores de riesgo en el mundo actualmente. En España, más de la mitad de la población infantil está por encima de su peso ideal. El objetivo de este estudio fue mostrar la experiencia piloto de intervención de educación alimentaria y nutricional que se llevó a cabo en el colegio p...