Boyd Swinburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 185216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boyd Swinburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boyd |
| FAMILY NAME | Swinburn |
| SIGNATURE | SWINBURN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ultra processed foods and their inputs increasingly dominate New Zealand’s food and beverage imports
International trade and investment liberalization impact national food environments via changes to the availability and affordability of foods, and may encourage the trade of ultra-processed foods (UPF). This study describes New Zealand (NZ) food and beverage imports over time, in terms of their level of food processing. United Nations Comtrade data was gathered for years 1990–2023. All Harmonized System (HS) codes related to food or non-alcoholi…
The impact of food poverty on educational achievement
Hunger negatively impacts a student’s ability to engage and learn at school. Rising food poverty among school students across the globe is increasingly recognized as a critical factor impacting educational achievement. International assessments show a consistent and strong link between student hunger and lower academic performance, yet detailed analysis remains limited. The aim of this paper is to quantify the impact of student hunger on educatio…
Nutritional quality and on-package marketing of pre-packaged foods and non-alcoholic beverages for sale in Senegalese supermarkets
This study shows that pre-packaged foods available in major supermarkets in Senegal are predominantly non-permitted to be marketed to children. In the context of increasing levels of obesity and diet-related NCDs, effective policies should be established to regulate the promotion of these foods
Free, healthy school lunches in New Zealand
The use of the Value for Investment approach was key because school lunch programs have many dimensions and the participatory research processes of the approach enabled stakeholders to emphasize the program's wide-ranging social and health benefits while identifying areas for improvement. While Ka Ora, Ka Ako rated very well across most of the 21 value dimensions, there are major concerns that this level of quality will not be upheld under the pr…
Identification of positive childhood experiences with the potential to mitigate childhood unhealthy weight status in children within the context of adverse childhood experiences
A critical number of PCEs may be required to mitigate the detrimental impacts of ACEs on weight status among children. These findings reinforce the need to consider a constellation of strength-focused ecological domains to alleviate the burden of childhood obesity, particularly for children exposed to multiple adversities
Health, wellbeing and nutritional impacts after 2 years of free school meals in New Zealand
In 2020, a government-funded healthy school lunch program was introduced in a quarter of New Zealand schools, selected due to high levels of socio-economic barriers. This study assesses the impact of the introduction of the school lunch program from family (whānau), student and school principal perspectives. Across four schools, we conducted five focus groups (two with secondary students and three with family members) and four school principal in…
Comprehensive application of a systems approach to obesity prevention
A systems approach to obesity prevention is increasingly urged. However, confusion exists on what a systems approach entails in practice, and the empirical evidence on this new approach is unclear. This scoping review aimed to identify and synthesise studies/programmes that have comprehensively applied a systems approach to obesity prevention in intervention development, delivery/implementation, and evaluation. By searching international database…
“Whiriwhiria, kia ora ai te tamaiti”
This study explores how a purposively selected sample of mainstream primary schools in regional New Zealand incorporate mātauranga Māori (traditional Māori (Indigenous people of New Zealand) knowledge) into school life to support successful learning. Qualitative semi-structured interviews with five principals of low advantage schools with high Māori student populations identified six themes focused on creating a curriculum built around Te Ao Māor…
Priority setting for non-communicable disease prevention - Co-producing a regulatory agenda informing novel codes of practice in Australia
Improving the reporting of intervention studies underpinned by a systems approach to address obesity or other public health challenges
Improving the reporting of intervention studies underpinned by a systems approach to address obesity or other public health challenges
Applying the complementary knowledge bases of System Dynamics and Indigenous knowledge in public health research in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Systems Thinking is increasingly applied to address complex societal and public health issues in Aotearoa, New Zealand and has been proposed as a good fit with traditional wisdom and Mātauranga Māori (Indigenous knowledge) from Aotearoa, New Zealand. In this article, we delve into the theoretical underpinnings of Systems Thinking approaches used in Community-Based System Dynamics research and find parallels with Indigenous narratives and knowledg…
Culture of Healthy Eating and Food Environments, Policies, and Practices in Regional New Zealand Schools
The school food environment plays an important role in shaping students' dietary choices, which often influence future dietary behaviours. We surveyed primary and secondary schools in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, to measure the comprehensiveness and strength of food policies, describe the culture of food provision, and identify barriers to improving school food environments. Fifty-one schools were included in the final analysis, with 58.8% having a …
Community Co-Design of Regional Actions for Children’s Nutritional Health Combining Indigenous Knowledge and Systems Thinking
Children's nutrition is highly influenced by community-level deprivation and socioeconomic inequalities and the health outcomes associated, such as childhood obesity, continue to widen. Systems Thinking using community-based system dynamics (CBSD) approaches can build community capacity, develop new knowledge and increase commitments to health improvement at the community level. We applied the formal structure and resources of a Group Model Build…
A collective call to strengthen monitoring and evaluation efforts to support healthy and sustainable food systems
There is widespread agreement among experts that a fundamental reorientation of global, regional, national and local food systems is needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals Agenda and address the linked challenges of undernutrition, obesity and climate change described as the Global Syndemic. Recognising the urgency of this imperative, a wide range of global stakeholders – governments, civil society, academia, agri-food industry, b…
The need to reshape global food processing
In the modern, globalised food system, useful types of industrial food processing that preserve foods, enhance their sensory properties and make their culinary preparation easier and more diverse, have been and are being replaced by food ultra-processing. The main purpose of food ultra-processing is to increase profits by creating hyperpalatable and convenient food products that are grossly inferior imitations of minimally processed foods and fre…
Policy Inertia on Regulating Food Marketing to Children
Unhealthy food marketing shapes children's preference towards obesogenic foods. In Malaysia, policies regulating this food marketing were rated as poor compared to global standards, justifying the need to explore barriers and facilitators during policy development and implementation processes. The case study incorporated qualitative methods, including historical mapping, semi-structured interviews with key informants and a search of cited documen…
Implications of international trade and investment agreements on policy space for restricting marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children
Objective: To determine the implications of international trade and investment agreements (TIA) for national governments’ policy space to restrict the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children. Design: In-depth interviews based on a series of policy scenario ‘vignettes,’ guided by an adapted scenario analysis methodology. Setting: Global. Participants: Nine key informants from relevant sectors, with expertise regarding the intersectio…
Identifying implementation gaps and priorities for the Singapore government to improve food environment policies
Objective: Singapore, an urbanised, developed nation, with a high reliance on food importation and a high prevalence of eating out is facing rising rates of obesity and diabetes. The objective of the current study was to characterise and evaluate the Singapore government’s policies to improve the food environment and to identify and prioritise concrete actions. Design: The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index tool and process were used. An exper…
Benchmarking for accountability on obesity prevention
Objective: Despite broad agreement on the need for comprehensive policy action to improve the healthiness of food environments, implementation of recommended policies has been slow and fragmented. Benchmarking is increasingly being used to strengthen accountability for action. However, there have been few evaluations of benchmarking and accountability initiatives to understand their contribution to policy change. This study aimed to evaluate the …
The potential impact of an implemented income redistribution package on obesity prevalence in New Zealand
Integrating Complex Systems Methods to Advance Obesity Prevention Intervention Research
Background. Whole-of-community interventions have been recommended and show promise for preventing obesity; however, research to understand the mechanisms underlying their success or failure is lacking. Complex systems approaches may be useful to address this gap. Purpose. To describe the evolution and utilization of qualitative and quantitative complex systems methods to understand and model whole-of-community obesity prevention interventions. A…
Benchmarking the Nutrition-Related Policies and Commitments of Major Food Companies in Australia, 2018
The food industry has an important role to play in efforts to improve population diets. This study aimed to benchmark the comprehensiveness, specificity and transparency of nutrition-related policies and commitments of major food companies in Australia. In 2018, we applied the Business Impact Assessment on Obesity and Population Level Nutrition (BIA-Obesity) tool and process to quantitatively assess company policies across six domains. Thirty-fou…
Community Group Model Building as a Method for Engaging Participants and Mobilising Action in Public Health
Group model building (GMB) is a qualitative method aimed at engaging stakeholders to collectively consider the causes of complex problems. Tackling inequities in community nutrition is one such complex problem, as the causes are driven by a variety of interactions between individual factors, social structures, local environments and the global food system. This methods paper describes a GMB process that utilises three system mapping tools in a st…
Understanding the LiveLighter(R) obesity prevention policy processes
A food environments feedback system (FoodBack) for empowering citizens and change agents to create healthier community food places
This study developed a systems-based approach (called FoodBack) to empower citizens and change agents to create healthier community food places. Formative evaluations were held with citizens and change agents in six diverse New Zealand communities, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with 85 change agents in Auckland and Hamilton in 2015-2016. The emerging system was additionally reviewed by public health experts from diverse organizations…
Parenting, family functioning and lifestyle in a new culture
This study documented the parenting styles among African migrants now living in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and assessed how intergenerational issues related to parenting in a new culture impact on family functioning and the modification of lifestyles. A total of 10 focus group discussions (five with parents and five with 13–17‐year‐old children; N = 85 participants) of 1.5–2 hours duration were conducted with Sudanese, Somali and Ethiopian m…
Trade and food policy
Weight perception in overweight adolescents
This study examined the association of weight perception and weight satisfaction with body change intentions and weight-related behaviours in 928 overweight adolescents (aged 11-18 years, 44% female). Accurate perception of weight was associated with trying to lose weight and inaccurate perception was associated with trying to gain muscle. Weight dissatisfaction was associated with trying to lose weight and gain muscle. Accurate weight perception…
Experiences of migration and the determinants of obesity among recent Iranian immigrants in Victoria, Australia
This study provides insight into the effect of migration on the determinants of obesity among Iranian immigrants in Victoria, Australia, and offers a contrast with the existing evidence by considering the experience of a group that is generally well educated, often emigrates for reasons related to personal freedom as opposed to material deprivation, and has rates of obesity similar to high-income countries
Using a Qualitative Vignette to Explore a Complex Public Health Issue
This article discusses how qualitative vignettes were combined with interviews to explore a complex public health issue; that is, promoting unhealthy foods and beverages to children and adolescents. It outlines how the technique was applied in practice and the combination of vignette-based interviews with a broader approach involving Gadamerian hermeneutics. Twenty-one participants from the public health community and the marketing and food and b…
Intergenerational Differences in Food, Physical Activity, and Body Size Perceptions Among African Migrants
We assessed intergenerational differences in food, physical activity, and body size perceptions among refugees and migrants from the Horn of Africa living in Victoria, Australia. We used a qualitative design and obtained data from 48 participants (18 individual interviews; 3 semistructured focus groups). Three major themes emerged: (a) food and physical activity, (b) preference of body size and social expectations, and (c) perceived consequences …
Nutritional quality, labelling and promotion of breakfast cereals on the New Zealand market
A Q methodology study of stakeholders’ views about accountability for promoting healthy food environments in England through the Responsibility Deal Food Network
Food references and marketing in popular magazines for children and adolescents in New Zealand
Modelling of potential food policy interventions in Fiji and Tonga and their impacts on noncommunicable disease mortality
An “ecological” approach to the obesity pandemic
An "ecological" approach to the obesity pandemic
Reproducibility and validity of a food frequency questionnaire in European and polynesian New Zealanders
The reproducibility and validity of a self-administered 142-item food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was assessed in a population comprising 124 European and 52 Polynesian (17 Maori and 35 Pacific Island) New Zealanders aged 40-65 years. Reproducibility correlation coefficients, determined by administration of the same questionnaire on two occasions 3 years apart, were higher in European than Maori and Pacific Island participants, ranging from 0.4…
Dissecting Obesogenic Environments
Sydney Principles’ for reducing the commercial promotion of foods and beverages to children
A set of seven principles (the ‘Sydney Principles’) was developed by an International Obesity Taskforce (IOTF) Working Group to guide action on changing food and beverage marketing practices that target children. The aim of the present communication is to present the Sydney Principles and report on feedback received from a global consultation (November 2006 to April 2007) on the Principles. The Principles state that actions to reduce marketing to…
Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Obesity (ACE-Obesity)
The use of consistent methods enables valid comparison of potential intervention costs and cost-offsets for each of the interventions. ACE-Obesity informs policy-makers about cost-effectiveness, health impact, affordability and 2nd stage filters for important options for preventing unhealthy weight gain in children. In related articles cost-effectiveness results and second stage filter considerations for each intervention assessed will be present…
Prevention of cancer. A colossal achievement, with much more to do
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Evaluation of the childhood obesity prevention program Kids - 'Go for your life
ACTRN12609001075279
Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia
ACTRN12609000892213
Healthy eating and obesity prevention for preschoolers
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12610000200088
Effectiveness of prevention programmes for obesity and chronic diseases among immigrants to developed countries – a systematic review
Objective To determine whether interventions tailored specifically to particular immigrant groups from developing to developed countries decrease the risk of obesity and obesity-related diseases. Design Databases searched were MEDLINE (1966–September 2008), CINAHL (1982–September 2008) and PsychINFO (1960–September 2008), as well as Sociological Abstracts, PsychARTICLES, Science Direct, Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar. Studies were included i…
Evidence-informed process to identify policies that will promote a healthy food environment in the Pacific Islands
Objective To implement a systematic evidence-informed process to enable Fiji and Tonga to identify the most feasible and targeted policy interventions which would have most impact on diet-related non-communicable diseases. Design A multisectoral stakeholder group of policy advisers was formed in each country. They used participatory approaches to identify the problem policies and gaps contributing to an unhealthy food environment. Potential solut…
Parenting, family functioning and lifestyle in a new culture
This study documented the parenting styles among African migrants now living in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and assessed how intergenerational issues related to parenting in a new culture impact on family functioning and the modification of lifestyles. A total of 10 focus group discussions (five with parents and five with 13–17‐year‐old children; N = 85 participants) of 1.5–2 hours duration were conducted with Sudanese, Somali and Ethiopian m…
Trade and food policy
An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge translation strategies to support evidence-informed decision-making in local governments (The KT4LG study)
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register (ANZCTR): ACTRN12609000953235
Modelling of potential food policy interventions in Fiji and Tonga and their impacts on noncommunicable disease mortality
Economic growth and obesity
Consumption patterns of sweet drinks in a population of Australian children and adolescents (2003–2008)
The proportion of Australian children and adolescents from the state of Victoria consuming sweet drinks has been stable or decreasing, although a high proportion of this sample consumed sweet drinks, especially fruit juice/cordial at both time points
Knowledge exchange in the Pacific
Public health interventions have rarely targeted evidence-informed policy making structures and processes to reduce obesity and NCDs. This study will empirically advance understanding of knowledge broking processes to extend evidence-informed policy making skills and develop a suite of national obesity-related policies that can potentially improve population health outcomes
An analysis of potential barriers and enablers to regulating the television marketing of unhealthy foods to children at the state government level in Australia
The regulation of unhealthy food marketing to children is perceived to be a feasible strategy for obesity prevention however barriers to implementation at the state level exist. Those involved in state-level policy making generally indicated a preference for Commonwealth-led regulation. This research suggests that implementation of regulation of the television marketing of unhealthy food to children should ideally occur under the direction of the…
Balancing the benefits and risks of public–private partnerships to address the global double burden of malnutrition
Objective Transnational food, beverage and restaurant companies, and their corporate foundations, may be potential collaborators to help address complex public health nutrition challenges. While UN system guidelines are available for private-sector engagement, non-governmental organizations (NGO) have limited guidelines to navigate diverse opportunities and challenges presented by partnering with these companies through public–private partnership…
Nutrition signposting
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Experiences of migration and the determinants of obesity among recent Iranian immigrants in Victoria, Australia
This study provides insight into the effect of migration on the determinants of obesity among Iranian immigrants in Victoria, Australia, and offers a contrast with the existing evidence by considering the experience of a group that is generally well educated, often emigrates for reasons related to personal freedom as opposed to material deprivation, and has rates of obesity similar to high-income countries
Intergenerational Differences in Food, Physical Activity, and Body Size Perceptions Among African Migrants
We assessed intergenerational differences in food, physical activity, and body size perceptions among refugees and migrants from the Horn of Africa living in Victoria, Australia. We used a qualitative design and obtained data from 48 participants (18 individual interviews; 3 semistructured focus groups). Three major themes emerged: (a) food and physical activity, (b) preference of body size and social expectations, and (c) perceived consequences …
Acculturation and obesity among migrant populations in high income countries – a systematic review
Methods for the evaluation of the Jamie Oliver Ministry of Food program,Australia
Australian and New Zealand Trial registration number: ACTRN12611001209987
Medicine (64 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (51 works) · Political science (45 works) · Environmental health (37 works) · Business (36 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (33 works) · Public health (32 works) · Public relations (32 works) · Nursing (31 works) · Economics (24 works)