Early and young child feeding in South Africa
Expert assessment of public policy using food-EPI
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Stunting under the age of two years remains a significant public health problem in South Africa. This study used data from the 2023/24 Food-EPI assessment to benchmark implementation of public nutrition policy related to undernutrition to develop recommendations for priority policy action. The assessment included ratings by an expert panel including academics, civil society, and government representatives (n = 13). Implementation of food fortification was rated as high, and access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in public areas was rated as low. Policies on breastfeeding and restrictions on the marketing of breast milk substitutes need to be updated and/or enforced. Breastfeeding in public and workplaces needs to be supported, the informal sector regulated, and breastfeeding and complementary feeding targets and growth monitoring attended to. The need to address stunting requires a systems approach to tackle undernutrition, as suggested by the UNICEF Nutrition Strategy 2020-2030
Child care · Food policy · Impact assessment · Policy analysis · Public health · Public policy · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments
Use of social media platforms by manufacturers to market breast-milk substitutes in South Africa
The aggregate income losses from childhood stunting and the returns to a nutrition intervention aimed at reducing stunting
Breastfeeding inequities in South Africa
What does an enabling environment for infant and young child nutrition look like at implementation level? Perspectives from a multi-stakeholder process in the Breede Valley Sub-District, Western Cape, South Africa
The anti-politics of food in South Africa
Social protection as a nutrition-sensitive instrument to address malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa
The rhetoric of community participation in urban South African water governance
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