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Crielaard L, Brown A, Nicolaou M, Hayward J, Stronks K, Allender S
BMJ Open . 2025 Feb; 15(2):e087195. PMID: 39971609
Objectives: Systems approaches (SAs) seek to understand the dynamics behind system behaviour and formulate effective actions given these dynamics. In public health, SAs often rely on qualitative systems maps visualising...
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Venegas Hargous C, Kapeke K, Backholer K, Jeyapalan D, Nunez V, Browne J, et al.
BMC Public Health . 2025 Feb; 25(1):613. PMID: 39953486
Background: Achieving nutrition and health equity warrants understanding lived experiences of marginalisation. Yet, people with diverse lived experiences are often inadequately included in food policy advocacy, agenda setting, and development....
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Ryom K, Bloch P, Toft U, Hoeg D, Thomsen L, Allender S, et al.
Health Res Policy Syst . 2025 Jan; 23(1):13. PMID: 39849550
Background: Childhood obesity is a preventable global public health challenge, increasingly recognized as a complex problem, stemming from complex drivers. Obesity is characterized by multiple interdependencies and diverse influences at...
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Duong B, Senadeera M, Nguyen T, Nichols M, Backholer K, Allender S, et al.
PLoS One . 2025 Jan; 19(12):e0314761. PMID: 39775396
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for evaluating health interventions but often face ethical and practical challenges. When RCTs are not feasible, large observational data sets emerge as...
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Venegas Hargous C, Orellana L, Strugnell C, Corvalan C, Allender S, Bell C
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act . 2024 Dec; 21(1):147. PMID: 39736761
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Strugnell C, Gaskin C, Becker D, Orellana L, Jackson M, Hillenaar M, et al.
Pediatr Obes . 2024 Dec; 20(2):e13195. PMID: 39694877
Background: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Australian state of Victoria (in particular, its capital, Melbourne) experienced some of the longest lockdowns in the world. Objective: This repeated...
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Jacobs J, Wolfenden L, Bolton K, Brown V, Sultana M, Backholer K, et al.
Obes Rev . 2024 Nov; 26(3):e13864. PMID: 39579030
Community-based interventions (CBIs) can be effective and feasible for the prevention of childhood obesity. The aim of this umbrella review is to determine if systematic reviews report sufficient information to...
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Allender S, Gaskin C, Becker D, Jackson M, Orellana L, Hayward J, et al.
Public Health . 2024 Nov; 237:344-353. PMID: 39515219
Objectives: Evaluate RESPOND, a community-based systems intervention to prevent childhood obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCD). Study Design: Cluster randomized trial of building community capacity to use systems science for child...
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Needham C, Strugnell C, Orellana L, Allender S, Sacks G, Blake M, et al.
Public Health Nutr . 2024 Oct; 27(1):e222. PMID: 39445498
Objective: In this paper, we examined whether there are inequalities in access to food retail (by type and healthiness) across local government areas (LGA) in Greater Melbourne and by LGA...
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Venegas Hargous C, Orellana L, Corvalan C, Strugnell C, Allender S, Bell C
Eur J Nutr . 2024 Jun; 63(7):2459-2475. PMID: 38829558
Purpose: To describe adherence to sustainable healthy diets among a sample of 958 Chilean pre-schoolers (3-6 years) and explore associations between adherence and child and maternal sociodemographic and anthropometric characteristics....