Creating Healthy Food Environments for All Children: Designing Spaces That Promote Healthy Eating
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2026 | Viewed by 227
Editor
Interests: public health nutrition; food security; hunger; childhood obesity; nutrition policy; nutrition education; environmental education; garden-based learning; chronic disease prevention and control; school health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The purpose of this Special Issue “Creating Healthy Food Environments for All Children: Designing Spaces That Promote Healthy Eating” is to explore the most updated available evidence about the role that the nutrition-related built environment plays in improving child health outcomes.
Nutrition in early life plays a key role in shaping a child’s future health. Children’s nutrition-related built environments shape their health by influencing what foods they can access, how safely and easily they can be active, and the environmental exposures they experience. These environments include neighborhood food outlets, school meal settings, parks, transportation systems, and the broader physical and social infrastructure that determines daily opportunities for healthy eating and movement.
The current Special Issue aims to include original works and literature reviews that further explore the effect of specific nutrition-related built environments on child health outcomes in particular.
Dr. Olivia M. Thompson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- public health nutrition
- food insecurity
- hunger
- childhood obesity
- school health
- environmental education
- garden-based learning
- built-nutrition environments
- food deserts
- healthy universal school meals
- nutrition assistance programs
- food as medicine
- community eligibility provision (CEP)
- healthy food finance initiatives
- nutrition environment
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