Gabriela Buccini

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ID1543871
NOMBREGabriela Buccini
NOMBRESGabriela
APELLIDOBuccini
FIRMABUCCINI G
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas
ORCID0000-0001-6008-0987
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS36
TOTAL DE CITAS10
TOTAL COMO AUTOR36
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Fidelidade, aceitabilidade e adequação na implementação de cartões de alimentação responsiva no Brasil

    Open AccessElizabeth Sorrentino, Gabriela Buccini et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2026

    Os cartões em alimentação responsiva (AR) visam encorajar a autonomia alimentar e impulsionar o desenvolvimento cognitivo, emocional e social, tornando-se uma ferramenta crítica na promoção da nutrição infantil na atenção primária. Este estudo teve como objetivos (1) avaliar a fidelidade na implementação dos cartões de AR por agentes comunitários da saúde (ACS) treinados, (2) investigar a aceitabilidade e adequação dos cartões na perspectiva de c…

  • Aplicações da teoria dos caminhos de impacto do programa no campo da nutrição em saúde pública

    Open AccessDaiane Sousa Melo, Gabriela Buccini et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2026

    A teoria dos caminhos de impacto do programa (CIPs) representa a arquitetura e mecanismos causais pelos quais um programa alcança os resultados pretendidos. Buscou-se identificar as principais aplicações dos CIPs no campo da nutrição em saúde pública. A revisão de escopo selecionou 24 estudos em março de 2024. Foram identificados quatro objetivos da aplicação dos CIPs: conhecer os processos e identificar mediadores; identificar pontos críticos de…

  • Applications of the program impact pathway theory in the field of public health nutrition

    Open AccessDaiane Sousa Melo, Gabriela Buccini et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2026

    The program impact pathway (PIP) theory represents the architecture and causal mechanisms by which a program achieves its intended outcomes. We sought to identify and analyze the main applications of PIPs in the public health nutrition field. This scoping review selected 24 studies in March 2024. Four objectives for applying PIPs were identified: to ascertain the processes and identify mediators; to identify critical quality control points; to gu…

  • Women workers’ rights and managers’ point of view

    Open AccessMaria Neuman Santos, ALANNA SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2026

    This study aimed to learn managers’ points of view on maternity leave and breastfeeding and find promotion, protection, and support strategies for breastfeeding in the work environment. This qualitative study, using Laurence Bardin’s content analysis, was conducted with eight managers in 2023 in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. We used a semi-structured script with questions about how managers organized women workers’ activities before the…

  • Facilitators and barriers to the formulation of public policies on food and nutrition

    Open AccessAna Carolina Feldenheimer Da Silva, ANA CAROLINE BATISTA RODRIGUES DA SILVA et…ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    This scoping review aims to identify facilitators and barriers to the formulation of public policies on food and nutrition across different contexts. The Scope review was conducted in seven databases. The search strategy was designed using research terms (and their derivatives) and included combinations of ‘nutrition’, ‘food’, ‘policy’, ‘guideline’, ‘action plan’, ‘strategy’, and ‘process’. All stages of data selection and extraction were indepen…

  • Overcoming recruitment barriers through meaningful community engagement

    Open AccessGabriela Buccini, Cristina Hernández et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background Recruiting participants from underserved communities for research can be challenging due to multilevel barriers. We conducted a maternal-child food insecurity needs assessment within underserved communities in urban Las Vegas, Nevada, and numerous barriers were faced to recruiting participants. This study aimed to examine barriers to participant recruitment, identify practical strategies for engaging participants, and analyze these str…

  • Nurturing Care Systems Underlying Early Childhood Food Insecurity in Brazil

    Open AccessGabriela Buccini, Krystyna Anne Stave et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    Experiencing food insecurity in early childhood is associated with adverse health and nutrition outcomes. About 66% of Brazilian households with children are food insecure; however, interventions targeting early childhood have fallen short in addressing food insecurity due to a lack of funding and multisectoral coordination combined with the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, protecting children from food insecurity is a complex task in Brazil and req…

  • Barriers and facilitators of implementing a community workshop series to mitigate maternal-child food insecurity

    Open AccessKristen N Herlosky, Kristen Herlosky et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    AC ommunity Workshop Series with topics across the Nurturing Care Framework was successfully co-created and piloted. Participants showed significant knowledge increase after participation in the workshops. Despite implementation barriers, the community workshop series was found as a promising community level health education intervention to address maternal-child food insecurity within underserved communities

  • Socioeconomic and maternal mental health factors associated with the parenting and development of children in an early childhood promotion program

    Open AccessLaura Mendes Toledo Dal’Ava dos Santos, Vivian Siqueira Santos Gonçalves et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Socioeconomic disparities and the presence of maternal anxiety were associated with unresponsive parenting and with the risk of developmental delay among children participating in the PCF in the Federal District

  • Factors associated with caregiver responsive and non-responsive feeding styles in Clark County, Nevada

    Open AccessAmanda Castelo Saragosa, Sheniz Moonie et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objective: Early childhood obesity (ECO) significantly increased in the USA. ECO interventions lack focus on the prevention of ECO for infants under 2. Caregiver’s feeding styles (CFS) have been shown to affect ECO development, but studies on CFS are limited. This study examined socio-ecological factors associated with CFS for infants under 2 in Nevada. Design: This cross-sectional study utilising a survey examined the five CFS constructs: respon…

  • Diálogos fotográficos do enfrentamento à pandemia por conselheiro(a)s de saúde

    Open AccessHarietha Gabriel Rocha, Avynner’s Silva E Sacramento et al.ARTICLEInterface - Comunicação Saúde…2025Referencias: 22

    Este estudo utilizou o photovoice para compreender dificuldades e otimizar estratégias de superação vividas por conselheiro(a)s de Unidades Básicas de Saúde durante a pandemia da Covid-19. Para guiar a pesquisa, seguiram-se as etapas do método photovoice propostas por Camille Sutton-Brown e Seitz e Orsini; e uma estrutura da ciência da implementação. Cinco conselheiro(a)s de duas unidades participaram de nove encontros, produzindo 14 fotografias.…

  • A global scoping review of adaptations in nurturing care interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessLídia Pereira Da Silva Godoi, Lidia Godoi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, children faced a disproportionate burden of malnutrition and poor health outcomes. Nurturing care interventions (NCIs) including actions toward good health, adequate nutrition, responsive care, opportunities for early learning, and security and safety are critical for promoting equity. Due to the need for evidence-based responses and preparedness, we analyzed adaptations in NCIs’ implementation strategies …

  • Determinação de indicadores RE-AIM para avaliação da Estratégia Amamenta e Alimenta Brasil

    Open AccessDaiane Sousa Melo, Gabriela Buccini et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2024

    OBJETIVO: Confirmar o diagrama dos caminhos de impacto do programa e funções centrais da Estratégia Amamenta e Alimenta Brasil (EAAB) e determinar indicadores para avaliação da EAAB. MÉTODOS: Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo, inserido no campo da pesquisa de implementação. A coleta de dados incluiu dois grupos focais com implementadores da EAAB, análise documental e revisão da literatura. A análise incluiu revisão das sugestões dos participantes…

  • Using concept mapping to co‐create implementation strategies to address maternal–child food insecurity during the first 1000 days of life

    Open AccessAmanda Castelo Saragosa, Jason D Flatt et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Food insecurity (FI) has short- and long-term effects on maternal and child health, with persistent inequities within under-resourced communities of colour (e.g., Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Black). Interventions to mitigate maternal-child FI must engage the voices of under-resourced communities of colour to improve implementation and tackle socio-ecological drivers of inequities, leading to positive maternal-child outcomes. This exploratory sequen…

  • Pathways to scale up early childhood programs

    Open AccessGabriela Buccini, Lily Kofke et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Evidence-based early childhood development (ECD) programs that strengthen nurturing parenting skills and promote early stimulation, such as Reach Up (RU) and Care for Child Development (CCD), are critical investments for interrupting cycles of intergenerational poverty; however, the implementation impact of these programs varies greatly globally. Analyzing systematically the evidence on the implementation pathways based on contexts (i.e., externa…

  • Implementation of strategies and programs for breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and malnutrition of young children in Brazil

    Open AccessSonia Isoyama Venancio, Gabriela BucciniARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2023Citada por: 4Referencias: 38

    Malnutrition in all its forms has risen on global agendas due to the recognition of its magnitude and consequences for a wide range of human, social, and economic outcomes. Implementing strategies and programs with the needed scale and quality is a major challenge. The Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition (ENANI-2019) pointed out several advances but numerous challenges. In this paper, we reflect on the implementation progress of breastfe…

  • Prioritizing nurturing care at the municipal and district level with the Brazilian Early Childhood Friendly Municipal Index (Imapi)

    Open AccessGabriela Buccini, Juliana Lopes Pimentel et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    The Brazilian Early Childhood Friendly Municipal Index (IMAPI) is a population-based approach to monitor the nurturing care environment for early childhood development (ECD) using routine information system data. It is unknown whether IMAPI can be applied to document metropolitan urban territorial differences in nurturing care environments. We used Brasilia, Brazil's capital with a large metropolitan population of 2,881,854 inhabitants divided in…

  • Implementation of the Strategy for Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding in the Federal District in Brazil

    Open AccessAmanda Souza Moura, Muriel Bauermann Gubert et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Lack of specific funding, monitoring of BF and CF practices, and compliance with certification criteria are the main challenges for the EAAB's sustainability

  • Single Mothers in Poverty in Brazil

    Laura Mendes Toledo Dal’Ava dos Santos, Gabriela Buccini et al.ARTICLEJournal of Poverty2022

    We aimed to identify whether single mother in poverty is a risk factor for household food insecurity, anxiety, and poor quality of life and whether extreme poverty modifies this association. The study included 545 pregnant women or mothers with a monthly per capita income less than half the minimum wage. Single mother is associated with anxiety and poor quality of life in the psychological, physical, and social relationship domains, compared to m…

  • Sociodemographic inequities in nurturing care for early childhood development across Brazilian municipalities

    Open AccessGabriela Buccini, Stefanie Eugênia dos Anjos Coelho Kubo et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Providing an enabling nurturing care environment for early childhood development (ECD) that cuts across the five domains of the Nurturing Care Framework (i.e., good health, adequate nutrition, opportunities for early learning, security and safety and responsive caregiving) has become a global priority. Brazil is home to approximately 18.5 million children under 5 years of age, of which 13% are at risk of poor development due to socio-economic ine…

  • Nurturing care indicators for the Brazilian Early Childhood Friendly Municipal Index (Imapi)

    Open AccessGabriela Buccini, Jéssica Pedroso Da Silva et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    The Nurturing Care Framework (NCF) calls for establishing a global monitoring and accountability systems for early childhood development (ECD). Major gaps to build low-cost and large-scale ECD monitoring systems at the local level remain. In this manuscript, we describe the process of selecting nurturing care indicators at the municipal level from existing routine information systems to develop the Brazilian Early Childhood Friendly Index (IMAPI)…

  • Household food insecurity and early childhood development in Brazil

    Open AccessKlébya HD de Oliveira, Gabriela Buccini et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To determine if household food insecurity (HFI) is associated with the risk of developmental delays. Design: Cross-sectional study of a representative sample of children under 2 years old. Risk of developmental delays was assessed with the Denver Developmental Screening Test II. HFI was measured with the Brazilian Food Insecurity Measurement Scale. Multivariable logistic regression was used to test the association between HFI (food sec…

  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in promotion of breast-feeding and reduction of late neonatal infant mortality in Brazil

    Open AccessOsvaldinete Lopes De Oliveira Silva, Marina Ferreira Rea et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To analyse the cost-effectiveness of Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in promoting breast-feeding during the first hour of life (BFFHL) and reducing late neonatal mortality. Design: Cost-effectiveness economic assessment from the health system perspective, preceded by a prospective cohort of mother–baby followed from birth to 6 months of life. The direct costs associated with two health outcomes were analysed: intermediate end …

  • Determinants of exclusive breast-feeding discontinuation in southeastern Brazil, 2008–2013

    Open AccessEdinalva Neves Nascimento, Claudio Leone et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To analyse the determinants of exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) discontinuation in southeastern Brazil between 2008 and 2013. Design: Secondary cross-sectional data were analysed from three waves of child feeding surveys conducted in the city of Marília, São Paulo, Brazil, in 2008, 2011 and 2013 ( n 1645 children under 6 months). Multivariable Poisson regression models were used to test the association between EBF discontinuation and soc…

  • Percepções e práticas intergeracionais de mulheres quilombolas sobre aleitamento materno e alimentação infantil, Goiás, Brasil

    Open AccessPatrick Oliveira Silva, Muriel Bauermann Gubert et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 27

    Estudo qualitativo exploratório com objetivo de identificar aspectos socioculturais e intergeracionais nas percepções e práticas sobre alimentação infantil entre mulheres quilombolas. Um grupo focal com 12 mães e outro com quatro avós de crianças menores de cinco anos foi realizado em uma comunidade quilombola rural em Goiás, Brasil. Para análise dos dados empregou-se análise de conteúdo na modalidade temática, da qual emergiram quatro temas cent…