
Judith SalinasUniversity of Chile · Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos (INTA)
Judith Salinas
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This article describes the nutritional status, food consumption, dietary behavior and culinary skills of third to fifth grade public school students from the La Reina neighborhood, Santiago de Chile, in order to propose healthy eating interventions. This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study in 617 children (349 males and 268 females) from third...
Objetivo: mediante la técnica de consenso Delphi, conocer la opinión de un grupo de expertos en nutrición, educación y gastronomía para buscar consenso sobre metodologías educativas en alimentación saludable, alumnos de tercero a quinto año básico, sus familias y profesores.Métodos: con los resultados de encuestas y grupos focales realizados previa...
The objective of this paper is to present the distance education's contribution to developing health promotion in Chile, through evaluation of a postgraduate certificate program for professionals, and a training course for nurse technicians working in primary healthcare, with an 8-month follow-up after program completion. The program methodology wa...
Background:
Unhealthy lifestyles and overweight are common among blue collar workers.
Aim:
To evaluate a nutrition education intervention in construction workers to prevent chronic diseases.
Material and methods:
One hundred forty two participants were randomly assigned to an experimental group (n = 69) and or a control group (n = 73). The exp...
The objective of this study was to describe food consumption, dietary behaviour and culinary habits in third to fifth grade students and their families through surveys and focus groups to implement nutrition education interventions in healthy eating habits at schools. Surveys in parents and children demonstrated that healthy food consumption was un...
Introduction:
An instrument to measure food knowledge, food consumption, cooking skills, food habits and food expenses at school is necessary to assess changes in food practices.
Objective:
To validate an instrument to measure changes in food knowledge, food consumption, cooking skills, food habits and food expenses in Chilean school children 8...
The objective of this study is to describe the process and results of a three-year project designed to create a nutrition education intervention model that promotes healthy dietary habits among teachers, students and their families. The methodology consisted in surveys, focus groups and Delphi method to assess teachers', students' and parents' diet...
The objective of this paper is to analyze the theoretical and methodological basis for a nutrition education program in healthy food for the school community. Conceptual basis and the experience of a nutrition education intervention for parents and teachers are described. An innovative and participative methodology with the utilization of Informati...
The objective of the study was to assess the impact of a nutrition education program for teachers to improve food knowledge, food consumption and the nutritional status of their pre basic and basic students. A quasi-experimental study was carried out, with a pre-post evaluation of food knowledge, food consumption and nutritional status. The sample...
Background: The less affluent and educated members of the society tend to be less prone to healthy lifestyles. Aim: To describe feeding habits, nutrition, quality of life and working conditions of construction workers comparing two recent surveys, namely the 2009 Chilean National Health Survey (NHS) and the 2010 Work, Employment and Health Survey (...
BACKGROUND
The less affluent and educated members of the society tend to be less prone to healthy lifestyles.
AIM
To describe feeding habits, nutrition, quality of life and working conditions of construction workers comparing two recent surveys, namely the 2009 Chilean National Health Survey (NHS) and the 2010 Work, Employment and Health Survey (W...
Objective:
To assess the impact of a nutrition education program for teachers in the nutritional status, food knowledge and food consumption of their pre basic and basic students, and in the controls.
Materials and methods:
A nutrition education intervention was conducted in pre basic and basic teachers in a school year, with a pre-post evaluati...
Background: Health promotion in Chile is essential, considering its current epidemiologic status where chronic diseases are predominant. Aim: To report the evaluation of an on-line Diploma in health promotion for Primary Health Care professionals. Material and Methods: Two hundred sixty four professionals from all regions of the country (40% rural...
Background: Health promotion in Chile is essential, considering its current epidemiologic status where chronic diseases are predominant. Aim: To report the evaluation of an on-line Diploma in health promotion for Primary Health Care professionals. Material and Methods: Two hundred sixty four professionals from all regions of the country (40% rural...
Introduction:
It is necessary to assess family food habits in school children to cope with infant obesity.
Objective:
Designing and validation of an instrument to measure food habits and food knowledge in Chilean preschool and school families based on dietary guidelines.
Methods:
A pilot study in 30 preschool and school-age parents was carried...
The objective of this review is to analyze the current regulations at national and local level in order to identify opportunities for school health promotion and nutrition education in basic schools, including policy proposals at national and local level focused in schools. A complete legislation and regulations review backing healthy food at schoo...
The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a nutrition education intervention on fruits, vegetables and fish consumption in pre-school and school age children families, through a three months education intervention with a pre-post evaluation in 27 intervened families and 32 controls from public schools in Santiago, Chile. A food-freque...
Delphi method to identify education material on healthy food for teachers, school-age children and their parents. Delphi method applied to get expert consensus about healthy food topics to include in educational materials for preschool and school-age children, their parents and teachers is described. The questionnaire was developed with the results...
The objective of this study was to conduct a comparative analysis about food knowledge and food consumption in preschool and school-age children, their parents and teachers to establish a baseline for a nutrition education intervention model in schools. For that purpose, surveys were administered about healthy and non-healthy food knowledge and foo...
The objective of this study was to analyze the background information on School Health Promotion from an international perspective, the health and nutrition situation of children and adolescents, school health and nutrition strategies implemented in the last decade, and finally, the present challenges according to the needs and opportunities existi...
The Government of Chile has placed a high priority on health promotion. This is evident in the advances made through its National Plan for Health Promotion (Plan Nacional de Promoción de la Salud) and the Vida Chile National Council for Health Promotion (Consejo Nacional para la Promoción de la Salud Vida Chile). Chaired by the minister of health,...
In Chile, obesity has increased significantly during the 80´s and presently constitutes the main nutritional problem of the population. In preschool children controlled at primary health clinics, obesity prevalence is 8.2%; in the same group attending day-care centers belonging to the National Day Care Association (JUNJI), this rate is 10.6%. The p...
The Ministry of Health associated with Chile Deportes designed, implemented and evaluated a physical activity pilot program in 40 Primary Health Care Centers. The objective was to develop active lifestyles and to improve the quality of life in adults and elderly with chronic diseases under control in Primary Health Care. The intervention consisted...
National and international environmental tobacco smoke studies were reviewed regarding its effects on passive smokers’ health. Environmental tobacco smoke is composed by more than 4,000 known substances, which are different if they are in the mainstream or sidestream. Studies with biomarkers like cotinine have concluded that exposed nonsmokers have...
A descriptive and transversal survey was carried out to know the prevalence of smoking and the attitudes of school teachers and other school workers. An anonymous self administered questionnaire was distributed in 235 educational establishments (132 basic schools, 14 high schools and 87 kindergartens) across the country. The analysis of 3,270 compl...
Worldwide, smoking is the main avoidable cause of death among adults.
To study smoking habits among health care workers in Chile.
A national survey about smoking among subjects working in the Chilean Ministry of Health. An anonymous and self administered enquiry was used.
The enquiry was answered by 20,848 employees, corresponding to 58% of the tot...
Background: Worldwide, smoking is the main avoidable cause of death among adults. Aim: To study smoking habits among health care workers in Chile. Material and methods: A national survey about smoking among subjects working in the Chilean Ministry of Health. An anonymous and self administered enquiry was used. Results: The enquiry was answered by 2...
This piece describes and analyzes the situation with respect to physical activity in Chile and the policies and strategies that have been developed in order to combat sedentary lifestyles. The level of sedentary lifestyles in the Chilean population is very high, with 91% performing less than 30 minutes of physical activity three times per week. Thi...
This piece describes and analyzes the situation with respect to physical activity in Chile and the policies and strategies that have been developed in order to combat sedentary lifestyles. The level of sedentary lifestyles in the Chilean population is very high, with 91% performing less than 30 minutes of physical activity three times per week. Thi...
This paper examines the rationality, main topics, organization and advances of the Health Promotion public policy in Chile. According to the epidemiological and nutritional transition in Chile, the Ministry of Health changed the traditional maternal and childhood policies for new priorities based on cardiovascular diseases, cancer, injuries and men...
Le ministere de la sante du Chili a recemment formule son premier Plan National de Promotion de la Sante avec la participation de nombreux groupes de travail representant toutes les regions du pays et differents secteurs de la societe et a etabli des objectifs regionaux pour la periode 1998-2000. Le modele de gestion fonde sur la participation soci...
Four factors that could explain in great part breast milk production difficulties in Chilean mothers are analyzed according to recent studies. Maternal nutritional status, positively influences breast milk volume and duration, thus adequate weight increment during pregnancy should be encouraged. Maternal work has been negatively correlated with bre...
The effects on pregnancy outcome and maternal iron status of powdered milk (PUR) and a milk-based fortified product (V-N) were compared in a group of underweight gravidas. These take-home products were distributed during regular prenatal visits. Women in the V-N group had greater weight gain (12.29 vs 11.31 kg, p less than 0.05) and mean birth weig...