Nutritional Status and Eating Patterns in Children and Adolescents: Tackling Vulnerabilities, Gender Gaps and Nutritional Disparities
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Pediatric Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2025 | Viewed by 100
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Interests: epidemiology; global health; nutrition and public health; vaccine hesitancy
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Interests: nutrition and public health; food security; malnutrition; epidemiological surveillance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition plays a fundamental role in shaping the current and future health of children and adolescents. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 aims to achieve zero hunger and eliminate all forms of malnutrition, ensuring that no one is left behind. Achieving this goal both contributes to—and requires—coordinated progress toward SDG 3, which promotes healthy lives and well-being for all, at all ages. Disparities in nutritional status continue to reflect and exacerbate broader social inequities, particularly among vulnerable populations, including in critical contexts such as conflict areas. Recent research has also highlighted gender-based disparities in nutritional outcomes, underscoring the significant connection between nutrition and SDG 5, which advocates for gender equality.
It is essential to recognize and respond to the diverse and evolving nutritional needs of children and adolescents, taking into account differences in age, gender, and socio-cultural background. A nuanced understanding of these factors is crucial to designing equitable, inclusive, and effective nutrition interventions and public health strategies.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, reviews, and short communications that examine the nutritional status and eating patterns of children and adolescents, with a particular interest in those that cover social vulnerabilities, gender disparities, and cultural contexts.
Prof. Dr. Ersilia Buonomo
Dr. Stefania Moramarco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutritional assessment
- dietary intake
- food security
- eating patterns
- nutrition and gender disparities
- nutritional inequalities
- cultural dietary practices
- vulnerable populations
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