Mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of Colombia and Vietnam: Lessons from two action-research programs
Adolescent and young women face grave nutrition challenges, but limited evidence exists on solutions to improve their diets. Action-research was done over 3 years (2020–2022) in secondary cities of Colombia (Medellin) and Vietnam (Thai Nguyen) to identify nutrient deficits in adolescent and young wo...
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| author | Bergeron, Gilles Nguyen, Phuong Hong Correa Guzman, Nathalia Tran, Lan Mai Hoang, Nga Thu Restrepo Mesa, Sandra |
| author_browse | Bergeron, Gilles Correa Guzman, Nathalia Hoang, Nga Thu Nguyen, Phuong Hong Restrepo Mesa, Sandra Tran, Lan Mai |
| author_facet | Bergeron, Gilles Nguyen, Phuong Hong Correa Guzman, Nathalia Tran, Lan Mai Hoang, Nga Thu Restrepo Mesa, Sandra |
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| description | Adolescent and young women face grave nutrition challenges, but limited evidence exists on solutions to improve their diets. Action-research was done over 3 years (2020–2022) in secondary cities of Colombia (Medellin) and Vietnam (Thai Nguyen) to identify nutrient deficits in adolescent and young women diets; elaborate food-based recommendations to improve their nutritional status using Optifood linear programming; and engage respondents in incorporating suggested recommendations to their diet using a Social Innovation Challenge approach. A total of 1001 respondents were interviewed in Vietnam, 793 in Colombia. The probability of nutrient inadequacy in both locations was highest for iron and calcium, followed by the risk of deficiency for several other vitamins and minerals. Social Innovation Challenge teams (11 in Vietnam, 9 in Colombia) were created and supported in developing solutions to improve diets and tackle those deficiencies. Awards and resources were transferred to the most promising solutions to enable their implementation. Pre/post measurements of the interventions’ impact using the Global Diet Quality Score as outcome metric showed significant improvement in the diets of Challenge participants. After introducing a series of companion articles that offer detailed results on those various steps, this paper draws strategic lessons from an action-research perspective. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1316062025-04-15T19:05:46Z Mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of Colombia and Vietnam: Lessons from two action-research programs Bergeron, Gilles Nguyen, Phuong Hong Correa Guzman, Nathalia Tran, Lan Mai Hoang, Nga Thu Restrepo Mesa, Sandra healthy diets nutrition nutrient deficiencies research women Adolescent and young women face grave nutrition challenges, but limited evidence exists on solutions to improve their diets. Action-research was done over 3 years (2020–2022) in secondary cities of Colombia (Medellin) and Vietnam (Thai Nguyen) to identify nutrient deficits in adolescent and young women diets; elaborate food-based recommendations to improve their nutritional status using Optifood linear programming; and engage respondents in incorporating suggested recommendations to their diet using a Social Innovation Challenge approach. A total of 1001 respondents were interviewed in Vietnam, 793 in Colombia. The probability of nutrient inadequacy in both locations was highest for iron and calcium, followed by the risk of deficiency for several other vitamins and minerals. Social Innovation Challenge teams (11 in Vietnam, 9 in Colombia) were created and supported in developing solutions to improve diets and tackle those deficiencies. Awards and resources were transferred to the most promising solutions to enable their implementation. Pre/post measurements of the interventions’ impact using the Global Diet Quality Score as outcome metric showed significant improvement in the diets of Challenge participants. After introducing a series of companion articles that offer detailed results on those various steps, this paper draws strategic lessons from an action-research perspective. 2023-10 2023-08-21T20:18:15Z 2023-08-21T20:18:15Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131606 en Open Access Wiley Bergeron, Gilles; Nguyen, Phuong Hong; Correa-Guzman, Nathalia; Tran, Lan Mai; Hoang, Nga Thu; and Restrepo-Mesa, Sandra. 2023. Mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of Colombia and Vietnam: Lessons from two action-research programs. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1528(1): 42-47. |
| spellingShingle | healthy diets nutrition nutrient deficiencies research women Bergeron, Gilles Nguyen, Phuong Hong Correa Guzman, Nathalia Tran, Lan Mai Hoang, Nga Thu Restrepo Mesa, Sandra Mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of Colombia and Vietnam: Lessons from two action-research programs |
| title | Mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of Colombia and Vietnam: Lessons from two action-research programs |
| title_full | Mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of Colombia and Vietnam: Lessons from two action-research programs |
| title_fullStr | Mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of Colombia and Vietnam: Lessons from two action-research programs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of Colombia and Vietnam: Lessons from two action-research programs |
| title_short | Mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of Colombia and Vietnam: Lessons from two action-research programs |
| title_sort | mobilizing adolescents and young women to promote healthy diets in urban settings of colombia and vietnam lessons from two action research programs |
| topic | healthy diets nutrition nutrient deficiencies research women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131606 |
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