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Food and Nutrition Literacy: Public Health Implications

Mohammadi-Nasrabadi F., Doustmohammadian A.

2025

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Summary

This reference work chapter, authored by Mohammadi-Nasrabadi and Doustmohammadian and published in 2025 via Springer, provides a conceptual and applied overview of food and nutrition literacy as a determinant of public health. It likely synthesises existing definitions, theoretical frameworks and evidence on how literacy levels influence food choices, dietary quality and health outcomes across populations. As a book chapter in a major reference work, it is likely intended to serve as a scholarly foundation for researchers, educators and public health practitioners.

UK applicability

Whilst the chapter appears to take a global or international scope, its conceptual frameworks and public health implications are broadly applicable to UK policy contexts, including NHS dietary guidance, food labelling legislation and public health nutrition education programmes such as those delivered through local authorities and schools.

Key measures

Food and nutrition literacy constructs; dietary behaviour indicators; public health outcome associations; measurement tools and frameworks

Outcomes reported

The chapter likely examines definitions, dimensions and determinants of food and nutrition literacy, and their associations with dietary behaviour and public health outcomes. It probably reviews measurement frameworks and the role of literacy-based interventions in improving population nutrition.

Theme
Nutrition & health
Subject
Food & nutrition literacy
Study type
Narrative Review
Study design
Narrative review
Source type
Book chapter
Status
Published
Geography
Global
System type
Human clinical
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-32047-7_4-1
Catalogue ID
XL0004

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