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CEIDSS NEW WEBSITE
We recently launched our new website!
www.ceidss.com
Along with a new design and a page dedicated to COVID-19, you will also find all our updated activities of our ongoing projects:
The EU H2020 Co-Create, the local MUN-SI, technical support to WHO Europe COSI study and COSI Portugal.
All project related Publications, as well as school communication/education materials, interviews, IGTV and Social Media are also featured, to make this an interactive Website where your opinion and voice is valued.
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KEEP IN TOUCH WITH CEIDSS INSTAGRAM!
In our Instagram page we share the latest updates on our projects, reports, and scientific papers. We also feature #CEIDSSrecommends and #CEIDSSgood reads where we share the latest scientific international news and publications, related with #nutrition, #childhealth #obesity and #NCDs
The #SpecialThursdays PepTalks Lives at 18.00h (Portugal) are full of special guests from the Nutrition world – You should not miss!
CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW @CEIDSS
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You can also keep up with our wonderful team!
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MUN-SI is a community-based programme which offers a response to childhood malnutrition that seeks prevention at municipality level. It is designed each year attending the needs of the municipalities and local needs, through and interventional process to measure its impact on child health.
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In the 2019/2020 school year, MUN-SI has started working in a new municipality - Cascais. Aditionally, the program is continuing its 10-year collaboration with the municipality of Oeiras.
This school year the first activities were implemented in 11 primary schools from the municipality of Cascais. The program reached about 654 children, in the 3rd and 4th grades, and it focused on the promotion of the Mediterranean Diet with a focus on Healthy Breakfasts. Didactic, age ajusted ludic and educational materials were used in the classroom activities in order to engage the children.
CONTIGENCY PLAN
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MUN-SI's approach rapidly adapted. The program immediately reached the community by promoting health literacy through an online platform, MUN SI ONLINE, using Instagram and other online tools, towards families and school teachers. The aim of the created content is to tackle disinformation and share a more practical approach to recommendations and guidelines promoted by scientific entities.
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Within its 10 Working Package, the EU H2020 project CO-CREATE Project “Confronting obesity: Co-creating policy with youth” started a new stage (Sept 2019) in the five European countries: Netherlands, UK, Norway, Poland and Portugal, where CEIDSS is the leading partner.
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For this stage three Youth Alliances were established in three Scouts Groups, from the Lisbon district, of adolescents aged 15-18 years old.
CEIDSS was the Host Partner of the Project “Co-facilitators training” which was held in September (2019), in Lisbon, where the youth members from all 5 participating countries attended.
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Several face-to-face meetings took place with the Youth Alliances since December 2019 where, through a participatory process, the public health concern of obesity among adolescents was addressed. Different policy ideas, focusing on healthy surroundings and the promotion of healthy eating and physical activity practice, were developed by the young people to tackle this issue.
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CONTIGENCY PLAN
In March 2020, amidst the coronavirus pandemic, these face-to-face meetings were forced to stop. Nonetheless, to keep working on the policy ideas with the young people, several online meetings
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have been conducted with a very high level of attendance by the Youth Alliances. In this critical moment the Portuguese team is very proud of the way that rapidly the youth members adapted and continued the work not compromising the objectives and the progress of the project.
For some of these online meetings, young professionals with experience in several fields related to the Alliance’s policy ideas were invited to whom the youth had the opportunity to openly share their questions and ideas, strengthening their proposals. The members of the Alliances are now finalizing their policy ideas and preparing for the next phase of the project, since the current stage is set to end by June 2020.
Hereinafter, events will be held where the youth will present and further discuss their policy ideas with relevant policymakers and other stakeholders.
Keep yourself posted @Co-Create Instagram
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The EUROPEAN CHILDHOOD OBESITY SURVEILLANCE INITIATIVE (COSI) is an on-going process of collection, management and analysis of data to monitor the nutritional status among primary school aged children.
CEIDSS is the technical supporting partner of the study in Portugal. Since the presentation of the preliminary data from COSI Portugal, that ocurred in July 2019, the technical team has been working on the validation of the data. The data has been analysed and the results will be published in the final report, to be presented this year.
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CO-CREATE Meeting for Facilitator Training - Amsterdam, September 2019
CO-CREATE Portugal team participated in the preparatory training for the project, where the activities to be developed together with the youth were discussed
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International Atomic Energy Agency Meeting on the Prevention of Childhood Obesity - Greece, December 3rd 2019
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Ana Rito in channel S+ discussed the latest childhood obesity data from Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI Portugal 2019) - Lisbon, July 19th 2019
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Presentation of the results of the National Physical Activity Promotion Program by the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health - Lisbon, September 19th 2019
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Joana Baleia as a speaker at a meat consumption debate panel at the JorTec Ambiente 2020 event at the Faculty of Science and Technology/UNL. - Lisbon, February 4th 2020
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What have we published...?
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The Department of Food and Nutrition of the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge launched a series of texts that address COVID-19 relating to food and nutrition published by
"Vitamin D in times of social confinement"
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"Food packaging and Covid-19"
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CEIDSS is preparing a text about and Childhood about COVID-19 AND Childhood Obesity.
Keep yourself posted
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