Combining systems thinking approaches and implementation science constructs within community-based prevention: a systematic review

J Whelan, P Fraser, KA Bolton, P Love… - Health Research Policy …, 2023 - Springer
Background Systems science offers methods for designing population health interventions
while implementation science provides specific guidance for successful implementation …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary strategies in the prevention and treatment of hypertension in children and adolescents: a narrative review

A Kozioł-Kozakowska, M Wójcik, V Herceg-Čavrak… - Nutrients, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study aims to gather information on effective dietary strategies for the prevention and
treatment of hypertension (HTN) in children and adolescents. It discusses specific nutritional …

Why can't we be friends? Bridging the academic/practitioner gap in social marketing

L Foote, P Sherring, S Rundle-Thiele - Journal of Social Marketing, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose In this paper we (a pracademic, a practitioner, and an academic) aim to explore the
academic/practitioner gap in social marketing and offer recommendations to close it, while …

Navigating the river (s) of systems change: a multi-methods, qualitative evaluation exploring the implementation of a systems approach to physical activity in …

J Nobles, C Fox, A Inman-Ward, T Beasley… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Systems approaches aim to change the environments in which people live,
through cross-sectoral working, by harnessing the complexity of the problem. This paper …

Social marketing: ready to help revolutionise marketing education

F Harris - Journal of Social Marketing, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to explore ways through which social marketing could help to
revolutionise marketing education and argues that this change is needed now. The world is …

Impact of cocreation training capsules for preschool teachers on children's healthy habits: a pilot study conducted in Barcelona, Spain

V Violant-Holz, C Rodríguez-Silva, M Carol… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Healthy habits are essential for preschoolers to have a healthy lifestyle. The
promotion of these healthy habits from a holistic approach by preschool teachers …

Whole systems approaches to diet and healthy weight: A scoping review of reviews

G Breslin, O Fakoya, W Wills, N Lloyd, C Bontoft… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Obesity is a global epidemic affecting all age groups, populations, and income
levels across continents, though is known to disproportionately affect socioeconomically …

Changes in diet and physical activity following a community-wide pilot intervention to tackle childhood obesity in a deprived inner-London ward

C Bijlani, C Vrinten, C Junghans, K Chang, E Lewis… - BMC Public Health, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background Local authorities in England have an important role in shaping healthy
local environments contributing to childhood obesity. This study examined changes in diet …

Improving child health service interventions through a Theory of Change: A scoping review

B Jones, A Paterson, M English, S Nagraj - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The objective of this scoping review was to map how child health service
interventions develop, utilise, and refine theories of change. A Theory of Change (ToC) is a …

[HTML][HTML] Toward systems models for obesity prevention: a big role for big data

AR Tufford, C Diou, DA Lucassen, I Ioakimidis… - Current developments in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The relation among the various causal factors of obesity is not well understood, and there
remains a lack of viable data to advance integrated, systems models of its etiology. The …