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Member States of the World Health Organization have agreed to a global process to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement or other international instrument under the Constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.

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Author summary Capturing food exposure of school children is a challenging task due to recall bias. In this manuscript, we describe a machine-learning-based data-collection tool that can automatically record school children’s exposure to food items, food advertisements and food outlets in their homes, schools and neighborhoods. Our data-collection tool consists of a wearable camera to capture continuous footage of children’s environments during a typical school day, and a series of machine learning models that can extract food-related images from the recorded footage and classify them into images that contain food items consumed by the child wearing the camera, or consumed by others, images that contain food advertisements, and images that contain food outlets. We report on a user-centered design study that assessed the acceptability of using wearable cameras to capture food exposure among school children in two urban Arab centers, namely Greater Beirut in Lebanon and Greater Tunis in Tunisia. We then describe how we trained our various machine learning models to capture food exposure among school children and categorize such food exposure into a predefined typology. Finally, we also report on the results of deploying our data-collection tool in a real-world case study in Tunisia.

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In endothelial dysfunction, the inner lining of blood vessels does not work and can lead to symptoms like chest pain. The condition also contributes to several cardiovascular disorders.

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Effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as school closures
and stay-at-home orders, during the COVID-19 pandemic has been assessed in many studies.
Such assessments can inform public health policies and contribute to evidence-based
choices of NPIs during subsequent waves or future epidemics. However, methodological
issues and no standardised assessment practices have restricted the practical value
of the existing evidence. Here, we present and discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19
pandemic and make recommendations for standardising and improving assessment, data
collection, and modelling.

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