DocumentCode
2613601
Title
Multiple Nutrition Education Strategies as an Approach to Reduce Risks of Unhealthy Diets towards the Reduction of Non-Communicable Diseases
Author
Paiva, Lakshika J. ; Krishnarajah, Naomi C.
fYear
2012
fDate
21-24 Oct. 2012
Firstpage
363
Lastpage
368
Abstract
The global burden of non communicable diseases is rising on the edge. Increasingly, globalization has given rise to unhealthy diets which is one major cause for non communicable disease. Lack of adequate information and nutritional knowledge has largely lead to unhealthy diets in populations. Most nutrition education theories and models lack the adequate matching to individual characteristics to effective behavioral change. An innovative nutrition education model comprising of multiple nutrition education strategies was designed and developed, as an initiative to induce behavioral change towards healthy diets, to reduce risks of non communicable diseases. The model takes an incremental approach towards nutrition education through the use of different learning techniques and perceptive influences to change dietary behavior of diverse populations.
Keywords
Biological system modeling; Communities; Diabetes; Diseases; Education; Sociology; Statistics; non-communicable diseases; nutrition education; unhealthy diets;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-3016-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-0-7695-4849-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/GHTC.2012.54
Filename
6387077
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