Assessing and Improving Diet Quality in Pediatric and Public Health Nutrition
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Pediatric Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 59
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pediatric nutrition; school nutrition policy; nutrition assessment methods; public health nutrition; nutritional epidemiology; nutrition education and behavioral science; ultra-processed food
Interests: pediatric nutrition; clinical nutrition; gastroenterology; oncology
Interests: nutrition through the life cycle; dietary assessment methods; nutritional epidemiology; functional foods; sports nutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Poor diet quality remains one of the main causes of childhood obesity, impaired nutritional status and diet-related non-communicable diseases in children. Understanding and improving dietary habits from childhood to adolescence is critical to long-term health outcomes.
This Special Issue addresses the challenges of assessing the quality of nutrition in the pediatric population and provides insight into their dietary habits. It also presents multidisciplinary research that evaluates the impact of nutritional strategies and programs, and explores innovative interventions and educations to improve the diet quality of children and adolescents. Therefore, the Special Issue welcomes submissions of original research articles, review articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyzes related to diet quality metrics and public health nutrition strategies and interventions.
This Special Issue provides an opportunity for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to share knowledge, insights and evidence that will help shape a healthier diet for future generations.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ana Ilić
Dr. Sara Sila
Prof. Dr. Daniela Čačić Kenjerić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adolescents
- children
- dietary assessment
- dietary habits
- diet quality
- infants
- nutrition
- nutrition educations
- nutrition interventions
- pediatric nutrition
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