TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring Food Culture
T2 - a Tool for Public Health Practice
AU - Kanter, Rebecca
AU - Gittelsohn, Joel
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (AIND)—Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT) (R.K., ANID-FONDECYT Initiation Research Project grant number 11170225). The Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo—Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Purpose of Review: Food culture is a ubiquitous aspect of all societies. This review provides an overview of methods for measuring food culture, and emphasizes the importance of these measures not just for description, but also for strengthening public health practice, primarily through the development of better interventions; to monitor and evaluate changes in diet and nutrition; and for the development of strategies for sustainability and dissemination. Recent Findings: Food culture measurement has enriched public health practice through its use of myriad approaches, including interviews, cultural domain analysis, visual methods, observation, time allocation studies, focus groups and community workshops, household studies, and textual analysis. Summary: Food culture measurement is essential for public health practice related to food and nutrition, and can lead to, among other outcomes, improved implementation research in nutrition, understanding household dynamics that impact nutritional outcomes, innovative textual analysis to identify food culture through language, and the selection of interventions conveyed through multiple strategies, including digital means, such as via social media.
AB - Purpose of Review: Food culture is a ubiquitous aspect of all societies. This review provides an overview of methods for measuring food culture, and emphasizes the importance of these measures not just for description, but also for strengthening public health practice, primarily through the development of better interventions; to monitor and evaluate changes in diet and nutrition; and for the development of strategies for sustainability and dissemination. Recent Findings: Food culture measurement has enriched public health practice through its use of myriad approaches, including interviews, cultural domain analysis, visual methods, observation, time allocation studies, focus groups and community workshops, household studies, and textual analysis. Summary: Food culture measurement is essential for public health practice related to food and nutrition, and can lead to, among other outcomes, improved implementation research in nutrition, understanding household dynamics that impact nutritional outcomes, innovative textual analysis to identify food culture through language, and the selection of interventions conveyed through multiple strategies, including digital means, such as via social media.
KW - Food culture
KW - Mixed methods
KW - Nutritional anthropology
KW - Public health
KW - Qualitative
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U2 - 10.1007/s13679-020-00414-w
DO - 10.1007/s13679-020-00414-w
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33128691
AN - SCOPUS:85094812884
SN - 2162-4968
VL - 9
SP - 480
EP - 492
JO - Current Obesity Reports
JF - Current Obesity Reports
IS - 4
ER -