%0 Journal Article
%T ESTANDARIZACI¨ŽN DE LOS PAQUETES DE ASISTENCIA ALIMENTARIA DE LA FUNDACI¨ŽN BANCO ARQUIDIOCESANO DE ALIMENTOS FBAA DE BOGOT¨˘ D.C.
%A Bejarano Roncancio
%A Jhon Jairo
%A Becerra Granados
%A Luis Miguel
%J Revista Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%D 2011
%I Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%X background. the foodbank's purpose since 2001 has been to recover fresh and manufactured products from large-scale chain-stores and industries, thereby avoiding that they become wasted and managing to ensure that they end up on the tables of the institutions helping the poorest sectors in bogot¨˘. objective. standardising the nutritional composition and content of food assistance packages supplied by the foodbank for member foundations, according to nutritional context and needs. materials and methods. this was a descriptive study which was organised into three phases. the programming, billing and despatching involved in organising donations to the institutions were observed, recorded and analysed by using a time and motion study. data was documented on a swot matrix (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats). administrative and technical characteristics were studied as well as the foundations' need for acquiring food assistance packages. this information was entered into two databases and a proposal was prepared and validated based on donations and internal classification, age group's epidemiological characteristics and coverage, type of attention and the number of exchanges per time regarding food supplied. results. systematised software was prepared which captured the information concerning standardised requisition according to food package needs per foundation, time being regarded as a factor; the process thus became optimised by 59%. conclusions. the food packages being delivered by fbaa were not focused on the target population's real needs from a nutritional point of view, morbid characteristics and the foundations' production dynamics. such handling led to losses in human, technical and financial resources.
%K food planning
%K food security
%K food storage
%K reference standards
%K nutrition programs.
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