Article
Global health diplomacy as a process: the chilean ultra-processed foods regulation case
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TASCA, Tiago; FREITAS, Roberta de. Global health diplomacy as a process: the chilean ultra-processed foods regulation case. Revista Mundorama, [Brasília], 24 out. 2019.
2175-2052
Autor
Tasca, Tiago Gabriel
Campos, Roberta de Freitas
Resumen
Under the hashtag #beatNCDs (Non-Communicable Diseases, such as cancer,
diabetes, and cardiovascular disease), the Third United Nations General Assembly
High-level Meeting, held in the late September 2018, claimed for NCDs control and
prevention. The first meeting occurred in 2012 and was the initial demarche of NCDs
discussion in the UN General Assembly. These meetings are noteworthy because of
NCDs’ relevance in the contemporary agenda of global challenges (e.g., the
Sustainable Development Goals). In spite of the increased attention in the global
agenda, NCDs were responsible for 71% of all deaths worldwide in 2016 and over threequarters of them occurred in low- and middle-income countries (WHO, 2018).
Especially in the last decades, NCDs have risen dramatically mainly due unhealthy
diets, which include the excessive consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF), which
are those “hyper-palatable, cheap, ready-to-consume […], energy-dense, fatty, sugary
or salty and generally obesogenic” edible products (Monteiro et al., 2013, 21).