Individuals’ perceptions of their food environments are a mediator between exposure to the environment and people’s interaction with it. The Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys (NEMS) are valid and reliable measures to assess food environments. In Spain, there is no adapted instrument to measure the perceived obesogenic environment. This article aims to adapt and evaluate the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for a Spanish context (NEMS-P-MED). The Spanish version has 32 questions to measure the perception about availability, accessibility and marketing of 3 types of environment: home, shops and restaurants. We assess feasibility, construct validity and internal consistency reliability through a sample of 95 individuals. The internal consistency was acceptable for most items (Cronbach’s alpha coefficients range from 0.6 to 0.9), similar to that of the original scale. The NEMS-P-MED has been shown to be valid and, on certain items reliable, and was useful to assess the population’s perceptions of the food environment in the home, restaurants and food stores in a Spanish context. Adapting standardized measurement tools to specific contexts to assess the perceived and observed characteristics of food environments may facilitate the development of effective policy interventions to reduce excess weight.

The Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys are valid and reliable measures of community and consumer food environments. This article describes the adaptation and evaluation of the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey in Stores (NEMS-S) for Mediterranean urban contexts (NEMS-S-MED). Trained raters used the adapted NEMS-S-MED tool to observe and rate food outlets in 21 census tracts and 43 food stores across the city of Madrid, Spain. We evaluated inter-rater and intra-rater reliabilities, construct validity, and the tool’s ability to discriminate between store types and between stores by area-level Socio-Economic Status (SES). Overall, the mean NEMS-S-MED score was 20.7 (SD = 9.8), which ranged from 7 to 43. Most food items displayed substantial or almost perfect inter-rater and intra-rater agreements; the percentage agreement across availability items was almost perfect and kappa statistics were also very high (median κ = 1.00 for inter-rater; κ = 0.92 for intra-rater). Furthermore, the NEMS-S-MED tool was able to discriminate between store types and census tracts of different SES. The adapted NEMS-S-MED instrument is a reliable and valid audit tool to assess the consumer food environment in Mediterranean urban contexts. Well-constructed measurement tools, such as the NEMS-S-MED, may facilitate the development of effective policy interventions to increase healthy food access and affordability.

The rise in obesity prevalence has increased research interest in the obesogenic environment and its influence on excess weight. The aim of the present study was to review and map data collection instruments for obesogenic environments in adults in order to provide an overview of the existing evidence and enable comparisons. Through the scoping review method, different databases and webpages were searched between January 1997 and May 2018. Instruments were included if they targeted adults. The documents were categorised as food environment or built environment. In terms of results, 92 instruments were found: 46 instruments measuring the food environment, 42 measuring the built environment, and 4 that characterised both environments. Numerous diverse instruments have been developed to characterise the obesogenic environment, and some of them have been developed based on existing ones; however, most of them have not been validated and there is very little similarity between them, hindering comparison of the results obtained. In addition, most of them were developed and used in the United States and were written in English. In conclusion, there is a need for a robust instrument, improving or combining existing ones, for use within and across countries, and more sophisticated study designs where the environment is contemplated in an interdisciplinary approach.

Resumen: El ámbito comunitario y de salud pública es probablemente el contexto donde las enfermeras han logrado mayores cotas de autonomía profesional y donde su contribución ha sido valorada en mayor medida. No obstante, todavía persisten grandes obstáculos para el pleno desarrollo, algunos de ellos vinculados a la variable género. Por ello, resulta relevante analizar, para el caso español, los antecedentes históricos de esta situación, en la medida que puede ayudar a entender muchos de los problemas y deficiencias que sigue mostrando la Enfermería Comunitaria en la actualidad. Las enfermeras comunitarias contribuyeron al desarrollo de la Salud Pública en la España contemporánea, proceso que se inició en los años 20 y que culminó durante la Segunda República, pero el periodo franquista supuso un importante freno al proceso de profesionalización. A través del ejemplo del conflicto público entre enfermeras visitadoras y practicantes, que se gestó en la Segunda República, y se prolongó durante todo el periodo franquista, se analiza cómo el discurso de género estuvo presente, entre otros condicionantes, en la evolución de la Enfermería española y cómo ha venido contribuyendo, hasta nuestros días, en la estructuración de las competencias, y la distribución de responsabilidades y poder.Palabras clave: Enfermería en Salud Comunitaria. Salud Pública. Historia de Enfermería. España Contemporánea. Identidad de GéneroAbstract: Community and public health is probably the field where nurses have achieved the highest levels of professional autonomy and their contribution is most valued. However, major obstacles to full development still exist, some of them linked to the variable of gender.It is therefore important to analyse the historical background of this situation in Spain in order to gain a better understanding of the many problems and shortcomings that still persist in Community Nursing today. Community nurses contributed to the development of Public Health in contemporary Spain, starting in the 1920s and culminating in the Second Republic.However, the Franco regime brought a halt to the process of professionalisation. By

Social determinants of health are a major contributing factor to health inequalities and have important effects on the health of the population. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of overweight/obesity in native and immigrant children aged 2–14 years residing in Spain, and to explore its relationship with socioeconomic factors, habits, and living and health conditions. This study used data from the 2017 Spanish National Health Survey, which collects health information on the population residing in Spain. Multivariate logistic regression models were fitted to estimate the risk of overweight/obesity controlling for the variables of interest. The final sample consisted of 2351 households. Children of immigrant origin had a significantly higher overall prevalence of overweight and/or obesity than natives, both in boys (40.5% vs. 29.5%) and girls (44.8% vs. 30.3%), and a higher adjusted risk of overweight/obesity (OR = 1.67). In addition, it has been observed that children of immigrant origin were at higher risk of consuming sugary soft drinks, exercising less, and using screens more. In conclusion, the increased risk of having different habits that may contribute to developing excess weight and of having overweight/obesity in children with a migrant background should guide public health policies and interventions, emphasizing those groups at higher risk and incorporating considerations of socioeconomic inequalities.

La educación en alimentación y nutrición es una herramienta fundamental para garantizar la salud. En 1961, se puso en marcha el Programa de Educación en Alimentación y Nutrición (EDALNU), que ayudó a la población española a completar su transición alimentaria y nutricional. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las características de la red de promotores de salud que se desarrolló en el marco del programa.Recibieron formación relacionada con alimentación y nutrición 46.752 personas, el 94% de ellas mujeres. El 89,54% obtuvo el título de iniciado y el 8,80%, el de diplomado. Se realizaron 1.407 acciones y en 1979 se alcanzó el momento más álgido, con 131 cursos y 4.029 alumnos. Madrid, con el 26,65% de cursos; Valencia, con el 7,60%; Murcia, con el 7,53%, y Málaga, con el 6,75%, fueron las provincias más activas. El Ministerio de Cultura y Educación fue el encargado de organizar el mayor número de cursos (26,23%), seguido de Sección Femenina (11,16%) y Acción Católica (5,12%). La duración y los contenidos formativos de los cursos eran de 160 horas para los diplomados y 40 para los iniciados.La acción formativa desarrollada estuvo sometida a los cambios que experimentó el Programa y a los que afectaron a la estructura administrativa y política española. La investigación ha mostrado las desigualdades territoriales que acompañaron el desarrollo de la red de formadores, su componente de género y el carácter plural de las instituciones que organizaron los cursos.

Llamazares JL. Impacto de una adecuada codificación de la desnutrición relacionada con la enfermedad en los índices hospitalarios. Nutr Hosp 2016;33:86-90 Palabras clave: Codificación hospitalaria. Desnutrición. Apoyo nutricional. Gestión de atención al paciente. Diagnóstico. AbstractIntroduction: Disease related malnutrition (DRM) affects at least one in four inpatients, increasing both morbidity and mortality during admission and after discharge. Nevertheless, its repercussion on hospital activity is not properly quantified. Objective: To determine the impact of an adequate coding of DRM and procedures employed to reverse it in the hospital average weight and other hospital indicators. Methods: Comparative study carried out in every patients requiring nutritional support and followed up by the Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Unit of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Department in Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León (Spain) in 2008 and 2013. A nutritional coding report at discharge including diagnosis, nutritional treatment and access was performed following ICD-9-MC.Average weight, average length of stay adjusted by case-mix and case-mix index were compared before and after coding. Results: Hospital average weight increased after coding, both in 2008 (+4.1%) and 2013 (+1.7%) and especially in those departments in which nutritional screening is performed (Hematology, +10.5%). Average length of stay adjusted by case-mix was reduced under 1 (-5.7% and -0.2% in 2008 y 2013), pointing out to better functioning, and functioning index also decreased (-5.6% y -0.4% in 2008 and 2013), what means a higher efficiency. Conclusion: Adequate coding of nutritional diagnosis and treatment of patients with DRM increases the average weight of our hospital and improves average length of stay adjusted by case-mix and functioning index.

Resumen El objetivo del estudio fue determinar los efectos sobre los hábitos alimentarios de escolares en una intervención educativa alternativa al modelo convencional de promoción de alimentación a un centro con comedor y proyecto de huerto ecológico. Estudio observacional descriptivo de corte transversal y comparativo de 111 niños y niñas entre 9 y 12 años, en el periodo 2013-15. Se comparó un colegio con intervención alternativa con otro que únicamente incluía contenidos propios del currículo de Educación Infantil y Primaria, mediante evaluación de adherencia a la dieta mediterránea del alumnado con cuestionario validado Kidmed. El centro de intervención presentó mayor adherencia a la dieta mediterránea que el centro control. En el centro de intervención el porcentaje de alumnado con dieta óptima (64,52%) fue mayor que los que necesitaban mejorar su dieta (33,87%), mientras que en el centro fue inferior (42,86% y 51,02% respectivamente). Los escolares del centro de intervención presentaron mayor porcentaje de respuestas afirmativas en ítems Kidmed. El programa de promoción de alimentación saludable alternativo del centro de intervención podría ser efectivo para la adquisición de una dieta de mayor adherencia a la dieta mediterránea.