Digital Technologies and Child Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Digital Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 2727
Special Issue Editors
Interests: child health; nutrition education; digital technology; gamification; behaviour change
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: eating behaviour; appetite regulation; child development; nutrition; dietary learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Children are being born and growing up in this digital era. The application of digital technology in the nutrition and health sectors can benefit children, but this has been against a backdrop of concerns about accessibility, data protection and the impact on mental wellbeing, sedentary behaviour and exposure to food marketing. “Habits stick when they are developed from young.” This Special Issue will address the question of whether digital technology can be used to improve child health, specifically in the context of eating behaviours, nutrition education or physical activity. We would like to explore how digital technologies created through collaborative efforts from researchers in computer science, nutrition, psychology and behavioural sciences can enhance the way in which we study children’s nutrition and health behaviours and can promote the accessibility and application of innovative intervention strategies seeking to improve child health. The role of implementation science in the successful scaling and evaluation of such technologies is also of interest.
Papers addressing these topics are invited for this Special Issue, especially those combining a high academic standard coupled with a practical focus on providing and evaluating digital solutions for improving child health. We especially encourage the submission of interdisciplinary work and multi-country collaborative research. We welcome original research papers using different study designs as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Dr. Claudia Leong
Dr. Keri McCrickerd
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eating behaviours
- behaviour change
- child health
- nutrition education
- digital health
- e-health
- m-health
- innovative solutions
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