Challenges of making healthy lifestyle changes for families in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Journal article

Participants recognised a range of factors that contributed towards their ability to make and sustain change, including factors at the wider socio-environmental level beyond their immediate control. Even with the support of a multidisciplinary healthy lifestyle programme, participants found it difficult to make sustained changes within an obesogenic environment. Healthy lifestyle intervention programmes and families' abilities to make and sustain changes require alignment of prevention efforts, focusing on policy changes to improve the food environment and eliminate structural inequities.

Authors: Wild, CE; Rawiri, NT; Willing, EJ; Hofman, PL; Anderson, YC

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Journal: Public Health Nutrition
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 1906-1915
• Publication date: 2020-11-06
• DOI: 10.1017/s1368980020003699
• EISSN: 1475-2727
• ISSN: 1368-9800
• Language: English
• Keywords: Childhood obesity; Obesity; Gerontology; Multidisciplinary approach; Environmental health; Overweight; Intervention (counseling); Psychology; Referral; Aotearoa; Medicine; Political science; Mental health; Psychiatry; Nursing