• 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