Lancet
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Evaluating the Change4Life Food Scanner app in reducing children's sugar intake: a randomised pilot and feasibility study.
The Change4Life Food Scanner app displays nutritional information using visual images alongside traffic light labels. The app's effectiveness for improving dietary choices is unknown. This study investigated the feasibility and acceptability of evaluating the effectiveness of the Food Scanner app in reducing children's sugar intake in the UK. ⋯ Wellcome Trust.
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Child protective services (CPS), or equivalent systems, have statutory power to remove children from birth parents via public family care proceedings in instances of child abuse, neglect, or concerns around parenting capacity. Parents who have children subject to care proceedings, referred to here as birth parents, often have complex health and social care needs that can predispose them to CPS involvement. We aimed to review what is known about the health needs of these birth parents and the interventions available to support their needs. ⋯ There was no funding for this study.
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Urban greenspaces might reduce non-communicable disease risk. The links between greenspaces and mortality related to non-communicable disease remain unclear. We estimated the associations between residential greenspace quantity and access with all-cause, cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory, and type 2 diabetes mortality. ⋯ Health Data Research UK.
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Intersectionality theory suggests that multiple forms of inequality need to be considered simultaneously. The extent to which intersectionality has been used within interventional health research has not been systematically examined. This scoping review explores the use of intersectionality when designing and implementing interventions to reduce health inequalities, or when analysing the impact of these interventions. ⋯ National Institute for Health and Care Research School for Public Health Research.
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There has been a rise in food insecurity in Europe since the 2008 global financial crisis and households with children are particularly vulnerable. We aimed to explore families' experiences of food insecurity and how these experiences affect children's nutritional health and wellbeing. ⋯ The Economic and Social Research Council.