The Influence of Social Determinants, Nutrition Policy on Healthy Eating Lifestyle
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition Methodology & Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2022) | Viewed by 34352
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social, cultural, and environmental determinants of dietary behaviors and diet-related diseases in low-income populations, LGBTQ populations, and Black, Indigenous People of Color; community-based participatory research; social justice; discrimination/racism; nutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The unequal burden of poor nutrition within and between countries has been well documented. Despite efforts globally to reduce/eliminate disparities in diet and its related health outcomes, differences in dietary patterns by race/ethnicity, education, socioeconomic position, sexual orientation, and other social factors have continued to persist, and in some contexts, even increase over time. Historically, research has focused strongly on understanding individual-level factors that contribute to disparities in the diet; however, there is growing recognition that social and structural determinants of health are key drivers and have important implications for improving population health, policy, and advancing health equity.
Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, play, worship, work, and age. Social determinants are shaped by structural determinants, including the distribution of power and resources at local, national, and global levels. Although evidence indicates that social and structural determinants profoundly affect health and well-being across the lifespan more generally, research highlighting the multiple pathways that link social and particularly structural determinants of health and diet is limited. Additionally, few studies have explored the role nutrition and broader policies (such as policies related to equitable housing, poverty reduction, antiracism) can play in reducing/eliminating inequities in diet and have the potential to provide scalable solutions to close these gaps. International, national, and local evidence can help to inform our understanding of how non-health sectors and social policies may impact the dietary wellbeing of populations. We are especially interested in evidence that seeks to address historically marginalized and oppressed populations, pandemic-related impacts, and policy-relevant solutions.
We invite investigators to contribute original research (empirical and theoretical) and systematic reviews that will further broaden our understanding of the cultural, economic, political, and social factors that contribute to, or may decrease, health inequities. Papers that include qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods are welcome, as are papers that discuss the design, implementation, and evaluation of behavioral, environmental, systems, and policy interventions. An important aspect of every manuscript selected for inclusion in the Special Issue will focus on social and structural determinants of health and/or applications of research findings to promote health equity. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Papers that discuss, refine, or test theoretical models specifying the relationship between social determinants and dietary behaviors and related health outcomes;
- Papers that emphasize an intersectional approach (e.g., race, gender, and social class) in advancing our understanding of social determinants and dietary behaviors and related health outcomes;
- Papers that highlight how social determinants have implications for the individual- (e.g., discrimination), place- (e.g., urbanicity), and community-oriented (e.g., segregation) factors and their contribution to dietary behaviors and related health outcomes;
- Papers building on natural experiment designs;
- Descriptions of epidemiological studies that examine relationships between social and structural determinants and dietary behaviors and related health outcomes;
- Descriptions of intervention studies that target social and structural determinants of health to improve dietary behaviors and related health outcomes;
- Papers that advance our understanding of how intrapersonal, cultural, and social, and structural factors work together to shape the health of communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
Prof. Dr. Angela Odoms-Young
Dr. Tamara Dubowitz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dietary patterns
- structural determinants
- health equity
- COVID-19
- underserved populations
- malnutrition
- dietary behaviors
- pandemic
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