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Physical inactivity Best buya Social campaigns • United States, VERB campaign • Brazil, “Agita São Paulo” program Social campaigns focused on physical activity habits more prevalent among the poor City governments, urban planning, transport, health, civil society organizations, the media Effective with insufficient evidencec Modifying the built environment to increase physical activity • New York City, bike lanes and bike paths • Bogotá, Colombia, sustainable public transportation, Ciclovía, CicloRutas, and outdoor gyms Modifying the built environment to promote physical activity among vulnerable groups programs to improve nutrition and increase physical activity Effective with insufficient evidencec Work-based programs United States, “Treatwell 5-a-Day” program to increase fruit and vegetable consumption Agriculture, health, food industry, food retail industry, schools, work places, food retailers, others School-based programs • United States, and Adolescent Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) • United States, Pathways (randomized control among American Indian schoolchildren) Other programs • North Karelia, Finland, decreasing salt and fat consumption and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption • Europe, EPODE • Mexico, National Accords for Food Health; Technical Guidelines for the Sale and Distribution of Food and Beverages in Education Establishments Tobacco use Best buya • Fiscal measures banning smoking in public places • Raising awareness and increasing knowledge about dangers of tobacco use • Several successful examples worldwide • Uruguay’s tobacco-control policy may be Latin America and the Caribbean’s most successful effort in this regard Support to tobacco- control policy application Finance, health, legislature, international organizations, tobacco industry, civil society organizations Source: Bonilla-Chacin 2014. Note: The table includes most of the programs reviewed for this study. a. “Best buys” are interventions that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers as “cost-effective, low cost, and can be implemented in low resource settings.” World Health Organization, Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases (Geneva: WHO, 2011). b. These are other cost-effective interventions that are not among WHO’s “best buys.” c. are effective interventions for which there is insufficient evidence on their cost-effectiveness.
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