Modi Mwatsama

Biographic Data

ID6174574
NAMEModi Mwatsama
GIVEN NAMESModi
FAMILY NAMEMwatsama
SIGNATUREMWATSAMA M
AFFILIATIONSUK Health Forum
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries

    Open AccessCécile Knai, Mark Petticrew et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    OBJECTIVES: Most non-communicable diseases are preventable and largely driven by the consumption of harmful products, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling and ultra-processed food and drink products, collectively termed unhealthy commodities. This paper explores the links between unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs), analyses the extent of alignment across their corporate political strategies, and proposes a cohesive systems approach to research a…

  • Quantifying the impact of the Public Health Responsibility Deal on salt intake, cardiovascular disease and gastric cancer burdens

    Open AccessAnthony A Laverty, Chris Kypridemos et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2019Cited by: 4References: 20

    BACKGROUND: In 2011, England introduced the Public Health Responsibility Deal (RD), a public-private partnership (PPP) which gave greater freedom to the food industry to set and monitor targets for salt intakes. We estimated the impact of the RD on trends in salt intake and associated changes in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and gastric cancer (GCa) incidence, mortality and economic costs in England from 2011-2025. METHODS: microsimulation model t…

  • Global health impacts of policies

    Open AccessModi Mwatsama, Modi K Mwatsama et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2014

    BACKGROUND: The UK government committed to undertaking impact assessments of its policies on the health of populations in low and middle-income countries in its cross-government strategy "Health is Global". To facilitate this process, the Department of Health, in collaboration with the National Heart Forum, initiated a project to pilot the use of a global health impact assessment guidance framework and toolkit for policy-makers. This paper aims t…

  • Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis

    Open AccessRobert Beaglehole, Ruth Bonita et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2011

  • Young children's food in Liverpool day-care settings

    Open AccessFfion Lloyd-Williams, Ffion Lloyd‐Williams et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2011

    Objective To explore nutrition and food provision in pre-school nurseries in order to develop interventions to promote healthy eating in early years settings, especially across deprived communities. Design An ethnographic approach was used combining participant observation with semi-structured interviews. Research participants were selected purposively using convenience sampling. Setting Community pre-school nurseries. Subjects Nursery managers (…

  • Rights, Knowledge, and Governance for Improved Health Equity in Urban Settings

    Open AccessFrançoise Barten, Marco Akerman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2011

    All three of the interacting aspects of daily urban life (physical environment, social conditions, and the added pressure of climate change) that affect health inequities are nested within the concept of urban governance, which has the task of understanding and managing the interactions among these different factors so that all three can be improved together and coherently. Governance is defined as: "the process of collective decision making and …

  • P39 Healthy eating for children in early years settings

    Katie Bristow, K S Bristow et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2010

    Background Children's dietary habits are often well established by 5 years of age. However, statutory guidelines to promote healthy food currently only apply to schools, not pre-school nurseries. Furthermore, good practice evidence has been well summarised in the Caroline Walker Trust (CWT) Guidelines to Encourage Healthy Eating in Children Under Five. (2006). Objectives To evaluate the extent to which national and local UK guidelines for the ear…

  • Small changes in snacking behaviour

    Open AccessFfion Lloyd-Williams, Ffion Lloyd‐Williams et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2009

    Objective To examine the potential public health impact on CHD and stroke mortality of replacing one ‘unhealthy’ snack with one ‘healthy’ snack per person, per day, across the UK population. Methods Nutritional information was obtained for different ‘unhealthy’ (such as crisps, chocolate bars, cakes and pastries) and ‘healthy’ snack products (such as fresh fruit, dried fruit, unsalted nuts or seeds). Expected changes in dietary intake were calcul…