Population and Community-Based Approaches to Prevent or Manage Obesity

Dear Colleagues,

Obesity rates are increasing globally at alarming rates. While substantial focus has been placed on individual-level prevention and management strategies through diet and lifestyle, increased attention to population- and community-level approaches is urgently needed. The retail food environment is implicated in obesity and cardiometabolic disease risk; however, further investigations are needed to better understand complex relationships between exposures and obesity-related outcomes, including regional differences in affordability, proximity, and product availability; relationships between food advertising and obesity-related outcomes; and individual characteristics that might moderate associations observed at broader levels (e.g., inhibitory control, health literacy, food values). Moreover, the increasing use of digital technologies has impacted traditional “foodscape” assessments and increased access channels to a variety of food products. The relationships between these digital methods and obesity risk are largely unknown. Finally, advocacy around “food as medicine” is growing with the emergence of “food farmacies” that prescribe healthy foods to at-risk groups, removing two key barriers to healthy eating: cost and choice. Thus, this Special Issue seeks submissions that target population- and community-level approaches to prevent or manage obesity via considerations of food access and food exposures. Observational studies, interventional studies, review articles, and commentaries are welcome.

Dr. Daiva E. Nielsen
Guest Editor

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