Measures of the food environment: A systematic review of the field, 2007–2015

LA Lytle, RL Sokol - Health & place, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Many studies have examined the relationship between the food environment
and health-related outcomes, but fewer consider the integrity of measures used to assess …

The frequency of family meals and nutritional health in children: a meta‐analysis

M Dallacker, R Hertwig, J Mata - Obesity reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Findings on the relationship between family meal frequency and children's nutritional health
are inconsistent. The reasons for these mixed results have to date remained largely …

[HTML][HTML] The prevalence of underweight, overweight, obesity and associated risk factors among school-going adolescents in seven African countries

T Manyanga, H El-Sayed, DT Doku, JR Randall - BMC public health, 2014 - Springer
Background The burden caused by the coexistence of obesity and underweight in Low and
Middle Income Countries is a challenge to public health. While prevalence of underweight …

[HTML][HTML] Policy implementation and priorities to create healthy food environments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): A pooled level analysis …

E Pineda, MP Poelman, A Aaspõllu, M Bica… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Food environments have been recognised as highly influential on population
diets. Government policies have great potential to create healthy food environments to …

Applications of geographic information systems (GIS) data and methods in obesity‐related research

P Jia, X Cheng, H Xue, Y Wang - Obesity reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Geographic information systems (GIS) data/methods offer good promise for public health
programs including obesity‐related research. This study systematically examined their …

Family meal frequency, diet, and family functioning: A systematic review with meta-analyses

SM Robson, MB McCullough, S Rex… - Journal of nutrition …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To examine the direction and magnitude of the relation between family meal
frequency and dietary and family functioning outcomes in children (aged 2–18 years) …

Quality matters: A meta-analysis on components of healthy family meals.

M Dallacker, R Hertwig, J Mata - Health Psychology, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: A greater frequency of family meals is associated with better diet quality and lower
body mass index (BMI) in children. However, the effect sizes are small, and it remains …

Household food insecurity: associations with disordered eating behaviours and overweight in a population-based sample of adolescents

L Hooper, S Telke, N Larson, SM Mason… - Public Health …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Objective: To examine how household food insecurity is related to adolescent weight status
and disordered eating. Design: Cross-sectional, population-based study. Adolescents self …

Earth observation: investigating noncommunicable diseases from space

P Jia, A Stein, P James, RC Brownson… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The United Nations has called on all nations to take immediate actions to fight
noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which have become an increasingly significant burden …

Food environments in and around post-primary schools in Ireland: associations with youth dietary habits

C Kelly, M Callaghan, M Molcho, SN Gabhainn… - Appetite, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The food environment within and surrounding schools may influence children's
diets. This study explored if the internal and external school food environments were …