Towards Children’s Healthy Growth: Improving Children’s Nutrition and Eating Behaviors
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Pediatric Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2023) | Viewed by 25017
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Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, College of Education, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Interests: applying statistics; psychometrics in social-behavioral science; children/adult nutrition; health disparities; health behaviors; substance use; obesity; cancer prevention
Interests: health disparities; obesity; chronic disease; children and families; low-income underserved communities; food access; food choice; food insecurity; nutrition security; nutrition and health outcomes; community-engaged approaches to population health; design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions in preschool, schools, and family- and community-based settings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition plays a vital role in children’s health. Childhood is a time of rapid growth and development with biologic, psychosocial, and emotional changes. These changes place elevated nutritional demands on children. The types of health behaviors; the influences of family and the environment; and cultural, socioeconomic, and psychological factors, can present barriers to healthy eating for children. Nutrition deficits and poor eating habits established in childhood have immediate and long-term adverse health, growth, and developmental consequences that might also be carried into adulthood.
This Special Issue of Children is focused on children’s nutrition, feeding, and eating behaviors, and their relationship to child health outcomes. This Special Issue is designed to document and disseminate original qualitative and/or quantitative research and emerging issues and practices relevant to these issues globally. For this Special Issue, we invite papers reporting:
- Original research studies focused on innovative interventions for improving children’s nutrition, feeding, or eating behaviors;
- Studies on conceptual models demonstrating the effect of children’s nutrition and eating behaviors on health and growth;
- Review articles that highlight the significance of recent research in child nutrition, feeding and eating behaviors and illustrate the central role of nutrition in the promotion of children’s health.
Prof. Dr. Tzuan A. Chen
Dr. Jayna Markand Dave
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- children
- nutrition
- feeding
- eating behaviors
- health outcomes
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