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ArticleNutrients2023

Diet-Related Disease Prevention in a Rural Australian Setting: Understanding Barriers, Enablers, and the Role of Rural Health Services in Supporting Changes in Local Rural Food Environments.

Nikita Wheaton, Emily Alston, Vincent L Versace, Michael Field, Anna Wong Shee, Jane Jacobs, Kathryn Backholer, Steven Allender, Melanie Nichols, Cindy Needham and 5 more

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Article in Nutrients, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Rural Food Forward: An Appetite for Change.The Australian journal of rural health · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Nikita WheatonDeakin Rural Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Warnambool, VIC 3284, Australia.
Emily AlstonResearch Unit, Colac Area Health, Colac, VIC 3250, Australia.
Vincent L VersaceDeakin Rural Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Warnambool, VIC 3284, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8514-1763
Michael FieldDeakin Rural Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Warnambool, VIC 3284, Australia.
Anna Wong SheeDeakin Rural Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Warnambool, VIC 3284, Australia.
Jane JacobsGlobal Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia.
Kathryn BackholerGlobal Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia.
Steven AllenderGlobal Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4842-3294
Melanie NicholsGlobal Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia.
Cindy NeedhamGlobal Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4572-6820
Kristy A BoltonGlobal Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia.
Miranda R BlakeGlobal Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0649-2320
Fletcher StewartResearch Unit, Colac Area Health, Colac, VIC 3250, Australia.
Evelyn CloseResearch Unit, Colac Area Health, Colac, VIC 3250, Australia.
Laura AlstonDeakin Rural Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Warnambool, VIC 3284, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4551-8845

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bold and comprehensive action is needed to prevent diet-related diseases in rural areas, which includes improving food environments to enable healthier dietary practices. Rural health services are integral to the health of rural populations, yet their role in community disease prevention is not swell understood. This study sought to understand health service, local government, and food outlet stakeholders' perspectives on (1) the drivers of unhealthy retail environments in a rural setting; (2) the role of rural health services in supporting changes in local food environments; and to (3) identify characteristics of potential interventions. Two Group Model Building workshops were held with health service and local government leaders (n = 9), and interviews were conducted with local food outlet participants (n = 13). Key themes included 'enablers to healthier food environments', 'barriers to healthier food environments', 'Rural health services are a leading broker of knowledge for healthy food environments', and 'characteristics of desirable healthy food environment interventions.'. Rural health services can play a key role in addressing the current barriers to healthy food environments in rural areas. Effective promotion of healthier diets in rural populations will require consideration of key stakeholder perspectives and the development of further evidence on the role that rural health services can play in improving the healthiness of food environments.

Indexed as

Rural Health ServicesRural PopulationAustraliaDietFoodHumansAustraliafood environmentsnutritionpreventionretail interventionsrural healthVictoria

Identifiers

PMID38068837
PMCPMC10708407

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