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Community Nutrition

Community nutrition focuses on improving the nutritional health of populations through interventions, education, and policy at the group or community level, rather than solely addressing individual dietary needs. Research published in the International Journal of Nutrition on this topic examines diverse challenges a…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 35× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Community nutrition focuses on improving the nutritional health of populations through interventions, education, and policy at the group or community level, rather than solely addressing individual dietary needs. Research published in the International Journal of Nutrition on this topic examines diverse challenges across global settings, including maternal and child nutrition in low-resource environments, cultural barriers to healthy eating, and targeted intervention strategies. Studies have explored exclusive breastfeeding beliefs among low-income women, nutritional status assessments in rural Bangladesh and Uganda, and dietary diversity among adolescent pregnant women in Tanzania. The journal has published work on vitamin A deficiency in rural preschool children, body composition in elderly populations, and malnutrition recovery programs at district health centers. Intervention research includes culturally tailored programs for migrant populations, hypocaloric Mediterranean diet adherence, and nutrition education combined with active choice strategies to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among schoolchildren. Additional studies have identified barriers to physical activity and healthy eating as perceived by low-income parents. This body of work underscores the importance of context-specific approaches that account for economic constraints, cultural beliefs, and local infrastructure when addressing community-level nutritional challenges across different age groups and geographic regions.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

The Nutrition Route following Esophagectomy

Boukerrouche AbdelkaderCorresponding author
Department of Digestive Surgery, Hospital of Beni-Messous, University of Algiers, Algiers, Algeria.
International Journal of Nutrition doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-20-3488

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 35 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Community Nutrition, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Nutrition (ISSN 2379-7835).

Journal editorial board
Kadri Koppel · United States Alicja Kuban-Jankowska · Poland Luigia Pazzagli · Italy

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