Mapping the nutrition transition in Peru: evidence for decentralized nutrition policies Cartografía de la transición nutricional en el Perú: datos que avalan la necesidad de políticas nutricionales descentralizadas

• Main Authors: M. Pia Chaparro, Leobardo Estrada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2012
• Subjects: Transición nutricional; política nutricional; trastornos nutricionales; hipernutrición; obesidad; desnutrición; trastornos de la nutrición del niño; Perú; Nutritional transition; nutrition policy; nutrition disorders; overnutrition; obesity; malnutrition; child nutrition disorders; Peru; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Doble
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1f8cf8ea51b14b35b5c00966d1ea5e39

The study objectives were to map the different stages of the nutrition transition for each department within Peru, and to determine the nutrition policy needs for each geographic area based on their current stage in the nutrition transition. Results show that most of the country is suffering from a...