Project

Increasing health equity through promoting healthy diets and physical activity

Code
G0GE923N
Duration
01 May 2024 → 30 April 2027
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor-spokesperson
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Preventive medicine
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Agricultural and food sciences not elsewhere classified
Keywords
Child nutrition adolescent health and well-being Co-creation
 
Project description

This project aims to design, implement and evaluate co-created social and physical environmental community interventions that promote healthier diets and physical activity, targeting children and adolescents in disadvantaged socioeconomic circumstances to increase health equity. The project will include co-creating interventions to address dietary inequalities among the most vulnerable children and adolescents, replicated in different European contexts, in order to identify novel approaches for the implementation of a social provision of food for families in vulnerable contexts. In addition, data from cohort studies will provide opportunities for assessing behaviour trajectories and their longitudinal association with health outcomes, particularly the role of social circumstances as a determinant and/or whether they modify these relationships.