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Food environments in the Pacific region and efforts to improve them: a scoping review

Public Health Nutrition
Objective: To understand the characteristics of food environments in the Pacific region, and the broader economic, policy and sociocultural surroundings that influence food choices and interventions to improve food environments for Pacific communities.
Sela Ki Folau Fusi, Clara Gómez-Donoso, Kathryn Backholer, Jennifer Browne, Megan Ferguson, Adrian J Cameron   +5 more
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Spatial pattern analysis of the impact of community food environments on foetal macrosomia, preterm births and low birth weight

Geospatial Health
Community food environments (CFEs) have a strong impact on child health and nutrition and this impact is currently negative in many areas. In the Republic of Argentina, there is a lack of research evaluating CFEs regionally and comprehensively by tools ...
Micaela Natalia Campero, Carlos Matías Scavuzzo, Carlos Marcelo Scavuzzo, María Dolores Román   +3 more
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Characteristics of the School Food Environment Affect the Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Among Adolescents

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021
Sugar-sweetened beverages are widely available and accessible in school environment, and their presence and characteristics of this environment can influence their consumption.
Luana Lara Rocha, Milene Cristine Pessoa, Lúcia Helena Almeida Gratão, Ariene Silva do Carmo, Nayhanne Gomes Cordeiro, Cristiane de Freitas Cunha, Tatiana Resende Prado Rangel de Oliveira, Larissa Loures Mendes   +7 more
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Drivers of Food Decision Making and Aspirations for the Future of the School Food Environment among Junior High School Students in Cape Coast, Ghana: a Photovoice Study

Current Developments in Nutrition
Background: Food decision making is a complex and dynamic process that influences diet and ultimately health. Adolescents consider many different food environment-level factors when making decisions about food.
Elise C Reynolds, Christiana Nsiah-Asamoah, Harriet Okronipa, Nicholas F Russell, Madina Habib, Christine P Stewart   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

One Health in food safety and security education: Subject matter outline for a curricular framework. [PDF]

, 2017
Educating students in the range of subjects encompassing food safety and security as approached from a One Health perspective requires consideration of a variety of different disciplines and the interrelationships among disciplines. The Western Institute
Angelos, John A, Arens, Amanda L, Cadriel, Jessica L, Johnson, Heather A, Osburn, Bennie I   +4 more
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The Association Between an Individual’s Local Food Environment and Diet Quality among Postpartum Women Living in Rural Bangladesh

Current Developments in Nutrition
Background: The food environment is a driver of the double burden of malnutrition, influencing dietary intake by increasing or restricting access to foods.
Alexandra L Bellows, Andrew Thorne-Lyman, Saijuddin Shaikh, Md Tanvir Islam, Shahnaj Parvin, Rezwanul Haque, Monica M Pasqualino, Frank Curriero, Hasmot Ali, Alain B Labrique, Md Iqbal Hossain, Amanda C Palmer   +11 more
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The healthiness of New Zealand school food environments: a national survey

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2022
Objective: To evaluate the healthiness of New Zealand school food environments. Methods: In 2016, primary and secondary schools were invited to complete a cross‐sectional questionnaire.
Erica D'Souza, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Boyd Swinburn   +2 more
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Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
The global ambitions to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture demand a complex transition of the current food environments for enabling sustainable healthy diets.
Shalander Kumar, Abhishek Das, Kavitha Kasala, Bradley George Ridoutt, Bradley George Ridoutt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 nationwide lockdown and disruptions in the food environment in Zimbabwe

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2021
This study assessed the COVID-19 related disruptions on the food environment in Zimbabwe. Information on disruptions in personal life, changes in food habits, changes at food acquisition points and nutrition information required during the lockdown were ...
Conrad Murendo, Mark Manyanga, Rungano Mapfungautsi, Thulani Dube   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is Food Outlet Accessibility a Significant Factor of Fruit and Vegetable Intake? Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Province-Wide Study in Quebec, Canada

Obesities, 2022
Unhealthy eating habits can compromise one’s health and generate significant individual, social, and health services costs. The adoption of healthy eating habits depends on individual and environmental determinants related to the characteristics of the ...
Alex-Ane Mathieu, Éric Robitaille, Marie-Claude Paquette   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source