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  • Chapter 16 - Translating Evidence to Policy

  • from Section 4 - Translations in Policy and Practice
  • Edited by Michelle Pentecost, King's College London, Jaya Keaney, University of Melbourne, Tessa Moll, University of the Witwatersrand, Michael Penkler, University of Applied Sciences, Wiener Neustadt
  • Book:
    The Handbook of DOHaD and Society
    Published online:
    20 June 2024
    Print publication:
    27 June 2024, pp 185-193
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  • Summary

    Although maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health is a well-established determinant of health across the lifecourse and across generations, the underpinning concept of DOHaD has not had significant impact on policymaking. This chapter identifies some of the barriers involved and how DOHaD researchers may overcome them. Policymaking is a complex process that is influenced by many factors other than science. Translating evidence to policy requires brokerage that explains the implications of science in a clear, frank way, accompanied by impactful solutions. Yet, the largely preventive approach advocated by DOHaD science does not inherently offer simple, high-impact interventions but rather a broad shift in thinking within the policy community. DOHaD advocacy will need to demonstrate short- and medium-term, as well as long-term, benefits. A complementary approach is to engage with communities to adjust scientific ideas to local knowledge and expertise.

  • Obesogenic neighbourhoods: the impact of neighbourhood restaurants and convenience stores on adolescents’ food consumption behaviours

  • Meizi He, Patricia Tucker, Jennifer D Irwin, Jason Gilliland, Kristian Larsen, Paul Hess
  • Journal:
    Public Health Nutrition / Volume 15 / Issue 12 / December 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 March 2012, pp. 2331-2339
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  • Objective

    To examine the relationship between the neighbourhood food environment and dietary intake among adolescents.

    Design

    Cross-sectional design using: (i) a geographic information system to assess characteristics of the neighbourhood food environment and neighbourhood socio-economic status; (ii) the modified Healthy Eating Index (HEI) to assess participants’ overall diet quality; and (iii) generalized linear models to examine associations between HEI and home and school food environmental correlates.

    Setting

    Mid-sized Canadian city in Ontario, Canada.

    Participants

    Grade 7 and 8 students (n 810) at twenty-one elementary schools.

    Results

    Students living in neighbourhoods with a lower diversity of land-use types, compared with their higher diversity counterparts, had higher HEI scores (P < 0·05). Students with more than 1 km between their home and the nearest convenience store had higher HEI scores than those living within 1 km (P < 0·01). Students attending schools with a distance further than 1 km from the nearest convenience store (P < 0·01) and fast-food outlet (P < 0·05) had higher HEI scores than those within 1 km. Those attending schools with three or more fast-food outlets within 1 km had lower HEI scores than those attending schools with no fast-food outlet in the school surroundings (P < 0·05).

    Conclusions

    Close proximity to convenience stores in adolescents’ home environments is associated with low HEI scores. Within adolescents’ school environments, close proximity to convenience and fast-food outlets and a high density of fast-food outlets are associated with low HEI scores.