Alan D Dangour
Biographic Data
| ID | 4090115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan D Dangour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Dangour |
| SIGNATURE | DANGOUR A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6908-1273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Let’s just ask them. Perspectives on urban dwelling and air quality: A cross-sectional survey of 3,222 children, young people and parents
This research aimed to capture and synthesise the views of children, young people, parents and expectant parents (CYPP) about the cities where they live, with a specific focus on air pollution (AP), in order to support the generation of evidence-informed policy that reflects CYPP’s perspectives, ultimately contributing to the development of child-centered, healthier, sustainable cities. The Children, Cities and Climate (CCC) project used targeted…
Changes in take-home aerated soft drink purchases in urban India after the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST): An interrupted time series analysis
In India, a country currently with low aerated drink consumption, the implementation of GST was not associated with a reduction in aerated drink purchase in urban settings. Due to the lack of accurate and sufficiently detailed price data, it is not possible to say whether this finding is driven by prices not changing sufficiently. Furthermore, the impact of GST reform on industry practice (reformulation, marketing) and individual behaviour choice…
Trading water: Virtual water flows through interstate cereal trade in India
Cereals are an important component of the Indian diet, providing 47% of the daily dietary energy intake. Dwindling groundwater reserves in India especially in major cereal-growing regions are an increasing challenge to national food supply. An improved understanding of interstate cereal trade can help to identify potential risks to national food security. Here, we quantify the trade between Indian states of five major cereals and the associated t…
International trade, dietary change, and cardiovascular disease health outcomes: Import tariff reform using an integrated macroeconomic, environmental and health modelling framework for Thailand
United Nations (UN) member states have, since 2011, worked to address the emerging global NCD crisis, but progress has, so far, been insufficient. Food trade policy is recognised to have the potential to impact certain major diet-related health and environmental outcomes. We study the potential for using import tariff protection as a health and environmental policy instrument. Specifically, we apply a rigorous and consistent Macroeconomic-Environ…
Factors associated with dietary diversity and length‐for‐age z ‐score in rural Ethiopian children aged 6–23 months: A novel approach to the analysis of baseline data from the Sustainable Undernutritio…
Infants and young children need diets high in nutrient density and diversity to meet the requirements of rapid growth and development. Our aim was to evaluate sociodemographic, agricultural diversity, and women's empowerment factors associated with child dietary diversity and length-for-age z-score (LAZ) in children 6-23 months using data collected as part of the Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction in Ethiopia (SURE) evaluation study baseline su…
Interventions in agriculture for nutrition outcomes: A systematic review focused on South Asia
Palm oil and dietary change: Application of an integrated macroeconomic, environmental, demographic, and health modelling framework for Thailand
Palm oil is a cooking oil and food ingredient in widespread use in the global food system. However, as a highly saturated fat, palm oil consumption has been associated with negative effects on cardiovascular health, while large scale oil palm production has been linked to deforestation. We construct an innovative fully integrated Macroeconomic-Environmental-Demographic-health (MED-health) model to undertake integrated health, environmental, and e…
Factors associated with catch‐up growth in early infancy in rural Pakistan: A longitudinal analysis of the women's work and nutrition study
The adverse health impacts of early infant stunting can be partially ameliorated by early catch-up growth. Few studies have examined predictors of and barriers to catch-up growth to identify intervention points for improving linear growth during infancy. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of, and factors associated with, catch-up growth among infants in Pakistan. A longitudinal study of mother-infant dyads (n = 1,161) was conducted in ru…
Sustainable food systems—a health perspective
Malnutrition in all forms, ranging from undernourishment to obesity and associated diet-related diseases, is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, while food systems often have major environmental impacts. Rapid global population growth and increases in demands for food and changes in dietary habits create challenges to provide universal access to healthy food without creating negative environmental, economic, and social impacts. This art…
Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia: What do we know, and what have we learned
Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition
Great progress has been made in addressing global undernutrition over the past several decades, in part because of large increases in food production from agricultural expansion and intensification. Food systems, however, face continued increases in demand and growing environmental pressures. Most prominently, human-caused climate change will influence the quality and quantity of food we produce and our ability to distribute it equitably. Our cap…
Dietary patterns and non-communicable disease risk in Indian adults: Secondary analysis of Indian Migration Study data
Objective Undernutrition and non-communicable disease (NCD) are important public health issues in India, yet their relationship with dietary patterns is poorly understood. The current study identified distinct dietary patterns and their association with micronutrient undernutrition (Ca, Fe, Zn) and NCD risk factors (underweight, obesity, waist:hip ratio, hypertension, total:HDL cholesterol, diabetes). Design Data were from the cross-sectional Ind…
Factors influencing fruit and vegetable intake among urban Fijians: A qualitative study
Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low‐ and middle‐income settings: A retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: Food and agriculture
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: Overview and implications for policy makers
Early life influences on adult leg and trunk length in the 1958 British birth cohort
Objectives: Short leg length has been associated with increased disease risk. We investigated (1) whether taller childhood stature predicts longer adult leg than trunk length; (2) the effects of early life factors on adult leg/trunk length. Methods: We used data from the 1958 British birth cohort on height in childhood and at 45 years, leg and trunk length at 45 years and early life factors ( n ≈ 5,900). Results: For a SD increase in height at 7 …
Anthropometric status of Kazakh children in the 1990s
Cross-Sectional Changes in Anthropometric Variables among Wapishana and Patamona Amerindian Adults
Although anthropometric information on South American Indian populations has been collected for many years, remarkably little is known about age-related changes in their body size in adulthood. The lack of baseline information on the normal pattern of aging among Amerindian adults hinders investigations into the health consequences of the many economic, environmental and demographic changes that are currently occurring among South American Indian…
Why did they blame the respondents
Sitting height and subischial leg length centile curves for boys and girls from Southeast England
The Tanner and Whitehouse reference curves for body segment length are not suitable for contemporary British children, whose legs are longer than they were a generation ago. It is proposed that the curves presented here be adopted provisionally as the new British reference
Growth of upper- and lower-body segments in Patamona and Wapishana Amerindian children (cross-sectional data)
The adverse effects on childhood growth of poor environmental conditions are well known, and it is argued that the variation in body size found between the populations in this study were the results of marked differences in the quality of their living conditions. This paper provides baseline data on the growth of Amerindian populations that are currently facing unprecedented changes in their economic and environmental circumstances
Sustainable food systems—a health perspective
Malnutrition in all forms, ranging from undernourishment to obesity and associated diet-related diseases, is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, while food systems often have major environmental impacts. Rapid global population growth and increases in demands for food and changes in dietary habits create challenges to provide universal access to healthy food without creating negative environmental, economic, and social impacts. This art…
Cross-Sectional Changes in Anthropometric Variables among Wapishana and Patamona Amerindian Adults
Although anthropometric information on South American Indian populations has been collected for many years, remarkably little is known about age-related changes in their body size in adulthood. The lack of baseline information on the normal pattern of aging among Amerindian adults hinders investigations into the health consequences of the many economic, environmental and demographic changes that are currently occurring among South American Indian…
Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia: What do we know, and what have we learned
Factors influencing fruit and vegetable intake among urban Fijians: A qualitative study
Palm oil and dietary change: Application of an integrated macroeconomic, environmental, demographic, and health modelling framework for Thailand
Palm oil is a cooking oil and food ingredient in widespread use in the global food system. However, as a highly saturated fat, palm oil consumption has been associated with negative effects on cardiovascular health, while large scale oil palm production has been linked to deforestation. We construct an innovative fully integrated Macroeconomic-Environmental-Demographic-health (MED-health) model to undertake integrated health, environmental, and e…
Growth of upper- and lower-body segments in Patamona and Wapishana Amerindian children (cross-sectional data)
The adverse effects on childhood growth of poor environmental conditions are well known, and it is argued that the variation in body size found between the populations in this study were the results of marked differences in the quality of their living conditions. This paper provides baseline data on the growth of Amerindian populations that are currently facing unprecedented changes in their economic and environmental circumstances
Why did they blame the respondents
Sitting height and subischial leg length centile curves for boys and girls from Southeast England
The Tanner and Whitehouse reference curves for body segment length are not suitable for contemporary British children, whose legs are longer than they were a generation ago. It is proposed that the curves presented here be adopted provisionally as the new British reference
Anthropometric status of Kazakh children in the 1990s
Cross-Sectional Changes in Anthropometric Variables among Wapishana and Patamona Amerindian Adults
Although anthropometric information on South American Indian populations has been collected for many years, remarkably little is known about age-related changes in their body size in adulthood. The lack of baseline information on the normal pattern of aging among Amerindian adults hinders investigations into the health consequences of the many economic, environmental and demographic changes that are currently occurring among South American Indian…
Early life influences on adult leg and trunk length in the 1958 British birth cohort
Objectives: Short leg length has been associated with increased disease risk. We investigated (1) whether taller childhood stature predicts longer adult leg than trunk length; (2) the effects of early life factors on adult leg/trunk length. Methods: We used data from the 1958 British birth cohort on height in childhood and at 45 years, leg and trunk length at 45 years and early life factors ( n ≈ 5,900). Results: For a SD increase in height at 7 …
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: Food and agriculture
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: Overview and implications for policy makers
Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low‐ and middle‐income settings: A retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries
Factors influencing fruit and vegetable intake among urban Fijians: A qualitative study
Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition
Great progress has been made in addressing global undernutrition over the past several decades, in part because of large increases in food production from agricultural expansion and intensification. Food systems, however, face continued increases in demand and growing environmental pressures. Most prominently, human-caused climate change will influence the quality and quantity of food we produce and our ability to distribute it equitably. Our cap…
Dietary patterns and non-communicable disease risk in Indian adults: Secondary analysis of Indian Migration Study data
Objective Undernutrition and non-communicable disease (NCD) are important public health issues in India, yet their relationship with dietary patterns is poorly understood. The current study identified distinct dietary patterns and their association with micronutrient undernutrition (Ca, Fe, Zn) and NCD risk factors (underweight, obesity, waist:hip ratio, hypertension, total:HDL cholesterol, diabetes). Design Data were from the cross-sectional Ind…
Factors associated with catch‐up growth in early infancy in rural Pakistan: A longitudinal analysis of the women's work and nutrition study
The adverse health impacts of early infant stunting can be partially ameliorated by early catch-up growth. Few studies have examined predictors of and barriers to catch-up growth to identify intervention points for improving linear growth during infancy. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of, and factors associated with, catch-up growth among infants in Pakistan. A longitudinal study of mother-infant dyads (n = 1,161) was conducted in ru…
Sustainable food systems—a health perspective
Malnutrition in all forms, ranging from undernourishment to obesity and associated diet-related diseases, is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, while food systems often have major environmental impacts. Rapid global population growth and increases in demands for food and changes in dietary habits create challenges to provide universal access to healthy food without creating negative environmental, economic, and social impacts. This art…
Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia: What do we know, and what have we learned
International trade, dietary change, and cardiovascular disease health outcomes: Import tariff reform using an integrated macroeconomic, environmental and health modelling framework for Thailand
United Nations (UN) member states have, since 2011, worked to address the emerging global NCD crisis, but progress has, so far, been insufficient. Food trade policy is recognised to have the potential to impact certain major diet-related health and environmental outcomes. We study the potential for using import tariff protection as a health and environmental policy instrument. Specifically, we apply a rigorous and consistent Macroeconomic-Environ…
Factors associated with dietary diversity and length‐for‐age z ‐score in rural Ethiopian children aged 6–23 months: A novel approach to the analysis of baseline data from the Sustainable Undernutritio…
Infants and young children need diets high in nutrient density and diversity to meet the requirements of rapid growth and development. Our aim was to evaluate sociodemographic, agricultural diversity, and women's empowerment factors associated with child dietary diversity and length-for-age z-score (LAZ) in children 6-23 months using data collected as part of the Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction in Ethiopia (SURE) evaluation study baseline su…
Interventions in agriculture for nutrition outcomes: A systematic review focused on South Asia
Palm oil and dietary change: Application of an integrated macroeconomic, environmental, demographic, and health modelling framework for Thailand
Palm oil is a cooking oil and food ingredient in widespread use in the global food system. However, as a highly saturated fat, palm oil consumption has been associated with negative effects on cardiovascular health, while large scale oil palm production has been linked to deforestation. We construct an innovative fully integrated Macroeconomic-Environmental-Demographic-health (MED-health) model to undertake integrated health, environmental, and e…
Trading water: Virtual water flows through interstate cereal trade in India
Cereals are an important component of the Indian diet, providing 47% of the daily dietary energy intake. Dwindling groundwater reserves in India especially in major cereal-growing regions are an increasing challenge to national food supply. An improved understanding of interstate cereal trade can help to identify potential risks to national food security. Here, we quantify the trade between Indian states of five major cereals and the associated t…
Changes in take-home aerated soft drink purchases in urban India after the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST): An interrupted time series analysis
In India, a country currently with low aerated drink consumption, the implementation of GST was not associated with a reduction in aerated drink purchase in urban settings. Due to the lack of accurate and sufficiently detailed price data, it is not possible to say whether this finding is driven by prices not changing sufficiently. Furthermore, the impact of GST reform on industry practice (reformulation, marketing) and individual behaviour choice…
Let’s just ask them. Perspectives on urban dwelling and air quality: A cross-sectional survey of 3,222 children, young people and parents
This research aimed to capture and synthesise the views of children, young people, parents and expectant parents (CYPP) about the cities where they live, with a specific focus on air pollution (AP), in order to support the generation of evidence-informed policy that reflects CYPP’s perspectives, ultimately contributing to the development of child-centered, healthier, sustainable cities. The Children, Cities and Climate (CCC) project used targeted…
Medicine (15 works) · Geography (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Demography (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (6 works) · Demography (6 works)