Hélène Delisle
Biographic Data
| ID | 343908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hélène Delisle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hélène |
| FAMILY NAME | Delisle |
| SIGNATURE | DELISLE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interventions for health equity with a One Health focus: A review of reviews
Introduction: The One Sustainable Health for All (OSH) Forum was launched in 2021 to promote a transdisciplinary "One Health/Planetary Health" approach in line with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The "One Health" approach is a holistic and system-based approach that recognizes the interconnection between health of humans, animals and ecosystems. The OSH Forum leads thematic international working groups (IWGs), and the IWG on health equit…
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: A pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: A pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Evidence-based strategies needed to combat malnutrition in Sub-Saharan countries facing different stages of nutrition transition
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Maternal education is essential but may not be sufficient to prevent child stunting: A commentary
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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: A pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million p…
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: A pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants
BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and …
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…
Evaluation of the international standardized 24-h dietary recall methodology (GloboDiet) for potential application in research and surveillance within African settings
BACKGROUND: Collection of reliable and comparable individual food consumption data is of primary importance to better understand, control and monitor malnutrition and its related comorbidities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including in Africa. The lack of standardised dietary tools and their related research support infrastructure remains a major obstacle to implement concerted and region-specific research and action plans worldwid…
Public health nutrition capacity: Assuring the quality of workforce preparation for scaling up nutrition programmes
Objective To describe why and how capacity-building systems for scaling up nutrition programmes should be constructed in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Design Position paper with task force recommendations based on literature review and joint experience of global nutrition programmes, public health nutrition (PHN) workforce size, organization, and pre-service and in-service training. Setting The review is global but the recommendations …
University-level nutrition training in West Africa: Cost and financing issues
BACKGROUND: There is a serious shortage of skilled nutrition professionals in West Africa. Investing in nutrition training is one of the strategies for strengthening the human resource base in nutrition. However, little is known about how nutrition training in the region is financed and the levels of tuition fees charged. The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive assessment about the levels of tuition fees charged for nutrition tra…
Contribution to the development of a food guide in Benin: Linear programming for the optimization of local diets
Objective Food guides are important tools for nutrition education. While developing a food guide in Benin, the objective was to determine the daily number of servings per food group and the portion sizes of common foods to be recommended. Design Linear programming (LP) was used to determine, for each predefined food group, the optimal number and size of servings of commonly consumed foods. Two types of constraints were introduced into the LP mode…
Region-wide assessment of the capacity for human nutrition training in West Africa: Current situation, challenges, and way forward
BACKGROUND: There is a dearth of information on existing nutrition training programs in West Africa. A preliminary step in the process of developing a comprehensive framework to strengthen human capacity for nutrition is to conduct an inventory of existing training programs. OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to provide baseline data on university-level nutrition training programs that exist in the 16 countries in West Africa. It also aimed to i…
The double burden of malnutrition and cardiometabolic risk widens the gender and socio-economic health gap: A study among adults in Burkina Faso (West Africa)
Objective To document the double burden of malnutrition and cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRF) in adults and its occurrence according to different sociodemographic parameters. Design Population-based cross-sectional observational study. We first randomly selected 330 households stratified by tertile of the income levels proxy as low, middle and high income. Setting Northern district of Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. Subjects In e…
Partnership research on nutrition transition and chronic diseases in West Africa – trends, outcomes and impacts
BACKGROUND: Nutrition-related chronic diseases (NRCD) are rising quickly in developing countries, and the nutrition transition is a major contributor. Low-income countries have not been spared. Health issues related to nutritional deficiencies also persist, creating a double burden of malnutrition (DBM). There is still a major shortage of data on NRCD and DBM in Sub-Saharan Africa. A research program has been designed and conducted in partnership…
Obesity and cardio-metabolic risk factors in urban adults of Benin: Relationship with socio-economic status, urbanisation, and lifestyle patterns
Our data show that obesity and cardio-metabolic risk factors are highly prevalent among urban adults in Benin, which calls for urgent measures to avert the rise of diet-related chronic diseases. People with higher SES and those with a longer exposure to the urban environment are priority target groups for interventions focusing on environmental risk factors that are amenable to change in this population. Lifestyle interventions would appear appro…
Physical Activity and Socioeconomic Status Explain Rural-Urban Differences in Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study in Benin (West Africa)
To explore the relationships between obesity, socioeconomic status (SES), and physical activity (PA), we conducted a study with 341 subjects of a medium-size city of Benin and its semi-rural outskirts. PA was appraised with 24-hour recalls and SES, with a questionnaire. The overall prevalence of obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30), abdominal obesity (waist circumference) and elevated percent of body fat (%BF) were 10.6%, 23.8% and 20.2%, respect…
Dietary transition stages based on eating patterns and diet quality among Haitians of Montreal, Canada
Objectives To identify dietary transition stages based on dietary patterns of adult Haitians having lived in Montreal for various lengths of time, and to assess associated dietary quality. Subjects One hundred and eighty-one Haitians aged 25–60 years were recruited by the modified random digit dialling method. Design Socio-economic, diet and lifestyle variables were documented by questionnaire. Three non-consecutive 24-hour dietary recalls were c…
Early nutritional influences on obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk. International Workshop, Université de Montréal, June 6–9, 2004
Public('s) nutrition
Objective To promote the new field of ‘public nutrition’ as a means to address, in a more efficient, sustainable and ethical manner, the world-wide epidemic of malnutrition – undernutrition and specific nutrient deficiencies, and also obesity and other nutrition-related chronic diseases. Strategy Grounded in the health promotion model, public nutrition applies the population health strategy to the resolution of nutrition problems. It encompasses …
Households With Undernourished Children and Overweight Mothers: Is This a Concern for Haiti
The coexistence of child malnutrition and adult overweight/obesity typifies rapid nutrition transition and is likely widespread in poor urban populations. This cross-sectional study assessed households’ anthropometric profile and socio-economic characteristics in a shantytown in Haiti. Out of 203 sampled households, 14% had a malnourished child (<10 years) and an overweight mother. Overweight mother households (32%) had a better socio-economic st…
Validación de escalas de seguridad alimentaria y de apoyo social en una población afro-colombiana: Aplicación en El Estudio De Prevalencia Del Estado Nutricional en Niños De 6 a 18 Meses
Nosotros realizamos un estudio transversal en 193 madres de niños de 6 a 18 meses de edad de una comunidad afro-colombiana con los objetivos: (1) adaptar y validar la escala de hambre del Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project, de apoyo social de DUKE-UNC-11, y de apoyo del compañero del Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD), e (2) identificar la relación entre la inseguridad alimentaria y el soporte social con el esta…
Public Nutrition: An Emerging Paradigm
Red palm oil as a source of vitamin A for mothers and children: Impact of a pilot project in Burkina Faso
Objective: To demonstrate the effectiveness of the commercial introduction of red palm oil (RPO) as a source of vitamin A (VA) for mothers and children in a non-consuming area, as a dietary diversification strategy. Design: A pre–post intervention design (no control area) was used to assess changes in VA intake and status over a 24-month pilot project. Setting and subjects: The pilot project involved RPO promotion in 10 villages and an urban area…
La sécurité alimentaire, ses liens avec la nutrition et la santé
The paper addresses the complex interrelationships between food security, nutritional status and health. Food insecurity is an important factor in malnutrition, but to reduce malnutrition, nutritional security should also improve. This means that better food security must be combined with actions that enhance nutrition-relevant practices and care, as well as access to health services. Food security itself goes beyond access to enough food. It enc…
Validación de escalas de seguridad alimentaria y de apoyo social en una población afro-colombiana: Aplicación en El Estudio De Prevalencia Del Estado Nutricional en Niños De 6 a 18 Meses
Nosotros realizamos un estudio transversal en 193 madres de niños de 6 a 18 meses de edad de una comunidad afro-colombiana con los objetivos: (1) adaptar y validar la escala de hambre del Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project, de apoyo social de DUKE-UNC-11, y de apoyo del compañero del Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD), e (2) identificar la relación entre la inseguridad alimentaria y el soporte social con el esta…
Public Nutrition: An Emerging Paradigm
Household food consumption and nutritional adequacy in Wadi Zones of Chad, Central Africa
A cross‐sectional survey of food consumption and nutritional status was conducted in 225 rural households involved in wadi agriculture in three adjacent zones of Kanem, in the Sahelian area of Chad. Mao and Moussoro zones were studied during the dry season and Nokou, the third zone, during the rainy (lean) season. Average household intakes of energy, protein and iron appeared adequate except in Nokou, where 41% of the households did not cover 60%…
Alimentation et Nutrition dans les Pays en Développement - 4e Journée Scientifiques Internationales du Germ, SPA (Belgique), 23-29 avril 1989
The deterioration in children's nutritional status in rural Chad: The effect of mothers' influence on feeding
OBJECTIVES: This study examined how maternal influence on child feeding modified the deterioration of child nutritional status in Chad. METHODS: The pattern of height with age was examined in 98 rural Chadian children aged 12 through 71 months from 64 households randomly chosen. RESULTS: Younger children were more stunted than older ones, probably reflecting secular deterioration in weanlings' nutritional status from 1982 to 1987. Children of mot…
La sécurité alimentaire, ses liens avec la nutrition et la santé
The paper addresses the complex interrelationships between food security, nutritional status and health. Food insecurity is an important factor in malnutrition, but to reduce malnutrition, nutritional security should also improve. This means that better food security must be combined with actions that enhance nutrition-relevant practices and care, as well as access to health services. Food security itself goes beyond access to enough food. It enc…
La quête de la sécurité alimentaire au 21 e siècle
(1998). La quête de la sécurité alimentaire au 21e siècle. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 19, The Quest for Food Security in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 21-35
The Quest for Food Security in the Twenty-First Century
(1998). The Quest for Food Security in the Twenty-First Century. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 19, The Quest for Food Security in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 9-20
A participatory approach to assessing Malawi villagers' perception of their own food security
A range of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) visual tools were used in two Malawian villages to determine how the villagers perceived their food security problems and what solutions they sought. In both villages, 94% of households were considered food insecure by villagers, who based their assessment on number and composition of meals, size of maize stores, and ownership of cattle in one village. Reported coping strategies were primarily connec…
Red palm oil as a source of vitamin A for mothers and children: Impact of a pilot project in Burkina Faso
Objective: To demonstrate the effectiveness of the commercial introduction of red palm oil (RPO) as a source of vitamin A (VA) for mothers and children in a non-consuming area, as a dietary diversification strategy. Design: A pre–post intervention design (no control area) was used to assess changes in VA intake and status over a 24-month pilot project. Setting and subjects: The pilot project involved RPO promotion in 10 villages and an urban area…
Public Nutrition: An Emerging Paradigm
Early nutritional influences on obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk. International Workshop, Université de Montréal, June 6–9, 2004
Public('s) nutrition
Objective To promote the new field of ‘public nutrition’ as a means to address, in a more efficient, sustainable and ethical manner, the world-wide epidemic of malnutrition – undernutrition and specific nutrient deficiencies, and also obesity and other nutrition-related chronic diseases. Strategy Grounded in the health promotion model, public nutrition applies the population health strategy to the resolution of nutrition problems. It encompasses …
Households With Undernourished Children and Overweight Mothers: Is This a Concern for Haiti
The coexistence of child malnutrition and adult overweight/obesity typifies rapid nutrition transition and is likely widespread in poor urban populations. This cross-sectional study assessed households’ anthropometric profile and socio-economic characteristics in a shantytown in Haiti. Out of 203 sampled households, 14% had a malnourished child (<10 years) and an overweight mother. Overweight mother households (32%) had a better socio-economic st…
Validación de escalas de seguridad alimentaria y de apoyo social en una población afro-colombiana: Aplicación en El Estudio De Prevalencia Del Estado Nutricional en Niños De 6 a 18 Meses
Nosotros realizamos un estudio transversal en 193 madres de niños de 6 a 18 meses de edad de una comunidad afro-colombiana con los objetivos: (1) adaptar y validar la escala de hambre del Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project, de apoyo social de DUKE-UNC-11, y de apoyo del compañero del Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD), e (2) identificar la relación entre la inseguridad alimentaria y el soporte social con el esta…
Dietary transition stages based on eating patterns and diet quality among Haitians of Montreal, Canada
Objectives To identify dietary transition stages based on dietary patterns of adult Haitians having lived in Montreal for various lengths of time, and to assess associated dietary quality. Subjects One hundred and eighty-one Haitians aged 25–60 years were recruited by the modified random digit dialling method. Design Socio-economic, diet and lifestyle variables were documented by questionnaire. Three non-consecutive 24-hour dietary recalls were c…
Obesity and cardio-metabolic risk factors in urban adults of Benin: Relationship with socio-economic status, urbanisation, and lifestyle patterns
Our data show that obesity and cardio-metabolic risk factors are highly prevalent among urban adults in Benin, which calls for urgent measures to avert the rise of diet-related chronic diseases. People with higher SES and those with a longer exposure to the urban environment are priority target groups for interventions focusing on environmental risk factors that are amenable to change in this population. Lifestyle interventions would appear appro…
Physical Activity and Socioeconomic Status Explain Rural-Urban Differences in Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study in Benin (West Africa)
To explore the relationships between obesity, socioeconomic status (SES), and physical activity (PA), we conducted a study with 341 subjects of a medium-size city of Benin and its semi-rural outskirts. PA was appraised with 24-hour recalls and SES, with a questionnaire. The overall prevalence of obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30), abdominal obesity (waist circumference) and elevated percent of body fat (%BF) were 10.6%, 23.8% and 20.2%, respect…
Partnership research on nutrition transition and chronic diseases in West Africa – trends, outcomes and impacts
BACKGROUND: Nutrition-related chronic diseases (NRCD) are rising quickly in developing countries, and the nutrition transition is a major contributor. Low-income countries have not been spared. Health issues related to nutritional deficiencies also persist, creating a double burden of malnutrition (DBM). There is still a major shortage of data on NRCD and DBM in Sub-Saharan Africa. A research program has been designed and conducted in partnership…
The double burden of malnutrition and cardiometabolic risk widens the gender and socio-economic health gap: A study among adults in Burkina Faso (West Africa)
Objective To document the double burden of malnutrition and cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRF) in adults and its occurrence according to different sociodemographic parameters. Design Population-based cross-sectional observational study. We first randomly selected 330 households stratified by tertile of the income levels proxy as low, middle and high income. Setting Northern district of Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. Subjects In e…
Region-wide assessment of the capacity for human nutrition training in West Africa: Current situation, challenges, and way forward
BACKGROUND: There is a dearth of information on existing nutrition training programs in West Africa. A preliminary step in the process of developing a comprehensive framework to strengthen human capacity for nutrition is to conduct an inventory of existing training programs. OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to provide baseline data on university-level nutrition training programs that exist in the 16 countries in West Africa. It also aimed to i…
University-level nutrition training in West Africa: Cost and financing issues
BACKGROUND: There is a serious shortage of skilled nutrition professionals in West Africa. Investing in nutrition training is one of the strategies for strengthening the human resource base in nutrition. However, little is known about how nutrition training in the region is financed and the levels of tuition fees charged. The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive assessment about the levels of tuition fees charged for nutrition tra…
Contribution to the development of a food guide in Benin: Linear programming for the optimization of local diets
Objective Food guides are important tools for nutrition education. While developing a food guide in Benin, the objective was to determine the daily number of servings per food group and the portion sizes of common foods to be recommended. Design Linear programming (LP) was used to determine, for each predefined food group, the optimal number and size of servings of commonly consumed foods. Two types of constraints were introduced into the LP mode…
Public health nutrition capacity: Assuring the quality of workforce preparation for scaling up nutrition programmes
Objective To describe why and how capacity-building systems for scaling up nutrition programmes should be constructed in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Design Position paper with task force recommendations based on literature review and joint experience of global nutrition programmes, public health nutrition (PHN) workforce size, organization, and pre-service and in-service training. Setting The review is global but the recommendations …
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: A pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants
BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and …
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…
Evaluation of the international standardized 24-h dietary recall methodology (GloboDiet) for potential application in research and surveillance within African settings
BACKGROUND: Collection of reliable and comparable individual food consumption data is of primary importance to better understand, control and monitor malnutrition and its related comorbidities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including in Africa. The lack of standardised dietary tools and their related research support infrastructure remains a major obstacle to implement concerted and region-specific research and action plans worldwid…
Medicine (27 works) · Environmental health (23 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (18 works) · Population (14 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (13 works) · Demography (11 works) · Malnutrition (11 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Gerontology (10 works)