Health Disparities in Nutrition and Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2023) | Viewed by 4848
Special Issue Editors
Interests: implementation science; chronic disease prevention; public health nutrition; dietary assessment
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Interests: nutrition; epidemiology; cancer; food intake; diet; modifiable risk factors; cohort study; systematic review; meta-analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many diet-related chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers, disproportionately impact groups of a particular race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, religion, immigration status, sexual orientation or gender identity, age, cognitive and/or physical disability, and geographical location. Equitably addressing health disparities will require approaches (e.g., interventions, policies, etc.) that consider the contexts of the most impacted populations. This will require a greater understanding of the contextual factors that support or hinder health-promoting actions (e.g., healthy eating, being physically active, engaging in routine medical care for disease prevention and management, etc.) and using this knowledge to develop solutions that appropriately address these factors.
For this Special Issue, we are seeking papers that examine the relationships between contextual factors and nutrition and/or health in populations impacted by health disparities. We also welcome papers exploring specific approaches (e.g., interventions-at any stage, policies, strategies, etc.) developed for these populations.
Dr. Angela Kong
Dr. Yumie Takata
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- health disparities
- health equity
- contextual factors
- social determinants of health
- nutrition
- health
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