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Nutrition and Food Systems for Health in the Pacific: Towards Healthy Islands

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 September 2024 | Viewed by 522

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Juliana Chen

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Discipline of Nutrition and Dietetics, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
Interests: nutrition; dietetics; diet; obesity; weight management; behaviour change; m-health; Pacific Islands
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Healthy Islands is a vision encouraging health protection and health promotion activities across Pacific Island Countries and Territories. Nutrition, environmental factors, food and health systems are necessary pillars for securing a healthy future for individuals, communities and populations at large in the Pacific.

Through dedicated research initiatives and targeted programs, efforts are being directed towards tackling the escalating prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This Special Issue aims to assemble research and data from across the Pacific to understand how nutrition and food systems intersect with health and their subsequent impact on NCDs.

We welcome original research articles, systematic and scoping reviews and meta-analyses. Research in both healthy populations and various subgroups with disease states is of interest. We are excited to invite you to submit research manuscripts related to this vision of Healthy Islands.

Dr. Juliana Chen
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Nutrients is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Pacific Island countries and territories
  • non-communicable diseases
  • nutrition
  • diet
  • food systems
  • health promotion

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What Do We Know about the Diets of Pacific Islander Adults in Papua New Guinea? A Scoping Review
by Alyse Davies, Juliana Chen, Hannah Peters, Alex Lamond, Anna Rangan, Margaret Allman-Farinelli, Shelina Porykali, Robin Oge, Hans Nogua and Bobby Porykali
Nutrients 2024, 16(10), 1472; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16101472 - 13 May 2024
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While a large proportion of the population in Papua New Guinea (PNG) maintain a subsistence lifestyle, exposure to modernisation and industrialisation since European contact has influenced a transition towards Western diets. This review aimed to scope and summarise the published research on dietary [...] Read more.
While a large proportion of the population in Papua New Guinea (PNG) maintain a subsistence lifestyle, exposure to modernisation and industrialisation since European contact has influenced a transition towards Western diets. This review aimed to scope and summarise the published research on dietary intake among Pacific Islander adults in PNG. Four electronic databases and grey literature were searched. Two reviewers completed the screening and data extraction. Fourteen studies were included from the Highlands (n = 7), Southern (n = 5), Momase (n = 1) and both the Highlands/Southern region (n = 1). No studies were from the Islands region. The majority of the studies were published prior to the year 2000 (n = 9). Geographical region and degree of urbanisation had an impact on dietary intake. Urban areas reported higher intakes of energy, protein and fat compared to rural areas. In the Southern region, a variety of foods, including sago, taro, kaukau, cooked banana, coconut and cassava contributed to energy intake, while kaukau was the main energy and protein source in the Highlands. The main foods contributing to protein in the Southern region were fresh fish, land animals and purchased animals. This review highlights an evidence gap regarding dietary intake research. Within the context of international initiatives, there is an urgent call for research aimed at understanding the social and cultural contextualisation of dietary behaviours in PNG. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition and Food Systems for Health in the Pacific: Towards Healthy Islands)
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