Aviva Tugendhaft

Datos Biográficos

ID197650
NOMBREAviva Tugendhaft
NOMBRESAviva
APELLIDOTugendhaft
FIRMATUGENDHAFT A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0003-4104-4299
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS16
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR16
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Moving towards social inclusion

    Open AccessAviva Tugendhaft, Nicola Christofides et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in the context of limited resources will require prioritising the most vulnerable and ensuring health policies and services are responsive to their needs. One way of addressing this is through the engagement of marginalised voices in the priority setting process. Public engagement approaches that enable group level deliberation as well as individual level preference capturing might be valuable…

  • What values drive communities’ nutrition priorities in a resource constrained urban area in South Africa

    Open AccessAgnes Erzse, Teurai Rwafa-Ponela et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Our study demonstrates how public engagement can facilitate the incorporation of community values and programmatic preferences into nutrition priority setting, enabling a responsive approach to local community needs, especially in resource constrained contexts. Findings could guide policy makers to facilitate more appropriate decisions and to improve nutrition in the first 1000 days of life

  • Engaging community members in setting priorities for nutrition interventions in rural northern Ghana

    Open AccessMaxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Engelbert A Nonterah et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    This study used “Choosing All Together” (CHAT), a deliberative engagement tool to prioritise nutrition interventions and to understand reasons for intervention choices of a rural community in northern Ghana. The study took an exploratory cross-sectional design and used a mixed method approach to collect data between December 2020 and February 2021. Eleven nutrition interventions were identified through policy reviews, interaction with different s…

  • Deliberative engagement methods on health care priority-setting in a rural South African community

    Open AccessAviva Tugendhaft, Karen Hofman et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Public engagement in priority-setting for health is increasingly recognized as a means to ensure more ethical, inclusive and legitimate decision-making processes, especially in the context of Universal Health Coverage where demands outweigh the available resources and difficult decisions need to be made. Deliberative approaches are often viewed as especially useful in considering social values and balancing trade-offs, however, implementation of …

  • The roles of men and women in maternal and child nutrition in urban South Africa

    Open AccessAgnes Erzse, Goldstein et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Industrialization and urbanization processes have challenged deeply held traditional gender norms and facilitated the emergence of modern ideologies in South Africa. This paper seeks to explore the gendered roles of family members on maternal and child nutrition and investigate indications of perceived change in related practices. A qualitative secondary analysis was conducted of data from nine focus group discussions (FGDs) held with men (n = 3)…

  • Attitudes and perceptions among urban South Africans towards sugar-sweetened beverages and taxation

    Open AccessE N Bosire, Nicholas Stacey et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2020

    Objective: A tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) was introduced in South Africa in April 2018. Our objective was to document perceptions and attitudes among urban South Africans living in Soweto on factors that contribute to their SSB intake and on South Africa’s use of a tax to reduce SSB consumption. Design: We conducted six focus group discussions using a semi-structured guide. Setting: The study was conducted in Soweto, Johannesburg, South…

  • The direct medical cost of type 2 diabetes mellitus in South Africa

    Open AccessAgnes Erzse, Nicholas Stacey et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    T2DM imposes a significant financial burden on the public healthcare system in South Africa. Treatment of all prevalent cases would incur a cost equivalent to approximately 12% of the total national health budget in 2018. With rising prevalence, direct costs will grow if current care regimes are maintained and case-finding improved. Increased financial resources are necessary in order to deliver effective services to people with T2DM

  • ‘First 1000 days’ health interventions in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessRené English, Nazia Peer et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: In South Africa (SA), despite adoption of international strategies and approaches, maternal, neonatal and child (MNC) morbidity and mortality rates have not sufficiently declined. OBJECTIVES: To conduct an umbrella review (UR) that identifies interventions in low- and middle-income countries, with a high-quality evidence base, that improve MNC morbidity and mortality outcomes within the first 1000 days of life; and to assess the incor…

  • The history of the South African sugar industry illuminates deeply rooted obstacles for sugar reduction anti-obesity interventions

    Alex Myers, David Fig et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies2017Referencias: 16

    South Africa suffers from a considerable health burden including communicable disease, violence and injury as well as non-communicable diseases. Its formal health system is significantly challenged. Reducing morbidity and mortality for all South Africans requires an approach that transcends health services, where public policy addresses the broader social determinants of health by designing and implementing interventions that improve people's hea…

  • Modelling the potential impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax on stroke mortality, costs and health-adjusted life years in South Africa

    Open AccessMercy Manyema, Lennert J Veerman et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Fiscal policy has the potential, as part of a multi-faceted approach, to mitigate the growing burden of stroke in South Africa and contribute to the achievement of the target set by the Department of Health to reduce relative premature mortality (less than 60 years) from non-communicable diseases by the year 2020

  • Cost of inaction on sugar-sweetened beverage consumption

    Open AccessAviva Tugendhaft, Mercy Manyema et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2016

    Objective To estimate the effect of increased sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption on future adult obesity prevalence in South Africa in the absence of preventive measures. Design A model was constructed to simulate the effect of a 2·4 % annual increase in SSB consumption on obesity prevalence. The model computed the change in energy intake assuming a compounding increase in SSB consumption. The population distribution of BMI by age and sex…

  • Nutrition labelling

    Open AccessJessie Mandle, Aviva Tugendhaft et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: To identify peer-reviewed research on consumers' usage and attitudes towards the nutrition label and the food industry's response to labelling regulations outside Europe, North America, and Australia and to determine knowledge gaps for future research. DESIGN: Narrative review. RESULTS: This review identified nutrition labelling research from 20 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Consumers prefer that pre-p…

  • Cost and impact of scaling up interventions to save lives of mothers and children

    Open AccessLumbwe Chola, Yogan Pillay et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    BACKGROUND: South Africa has made substantial progress on child and maternal mortality, yet many avoidable deaths of mothers and children still occur. This analysis identifies priority interventions to be scaled up nationally and projects the potential maternal and child lives saved. DESIGN: We modelled the impact of maternal, newborn and child interventions using the Lives Saved Tools Projections to 2015 and used realistic coverage increases bas…

  • Sugar and health in South Africa

    Open AccessAlex Myers, David Fig et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2015

    A growing body of evidence indicates that excessive sugar consumption is driving epidemics of obesity and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) around the world. South Africa (SA), a major consumer of sugar, is also the third most obese country in Africa, and 40% of all deaths in the country result from NCDs. A number of fiscal, regulatory, and legislative levers could reduce sugar consumption in SA. This paper focuses on a sugar-sweetened bev…

  • Reducing diarrhoea deaths in South Africa

    Open AccessLumbwe Chola, Julia Michalow et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Diarrhoea is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in South African children, accounting for approximately 20% of under-five deaths. Though progress has been made in scaling up multiple interventions to reduce diarrhoea in the last decade, challenges still remain. In this paper, we model the cost and impact of scaling up 13 interventions to prevent and treat childhood diarrhoea in South Africa. Modelling was done using the Lives Sa…

  • Strategic planning for saving the lives of mothers, newborns and children and preventing stillbirths in KwaZulu-Natal province South Africa

    Open AccessShelley-Ann McGee, Lumbwe Chola et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Focused attention on a set of key interventions could have a significant impact on averting stillbirths and maternal and neonatal mortality in KwaZulu-Natal. Concerted effort to prioritize family planning will save more lives overall and has the potential to decrease costs in other areas of maternal and child care