Dana Lee Olstad

Dados Biográficos

ID4273596
NOMEDana Lee Olstad
PRENOMESDana Lee
SOBRENOMEOlstad
ASSINATURAOLSTAD D L
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Calgary
ORCID0000-0001-9787-9952
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS37
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES5
TOTAL COMO AUTOR37
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2011
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • A proposed research agenda for the study of educational inequities in diet quality

    Open AccessDana Lee Olstad, Lee Mcintyre et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2026

    Educational attainment is a key determinant of diet quality. The overarching pathways (i.e. theories and mechanisms) through which educational attainment shapes diet quality remain largely unexplored in the nutrition literature, and the most salient pathways likely differ across time, populations and socio-economic and political contexts. This commentary proposes a research agenda and outlines methodological considerations that are intended to be…

  • Prevalence, value, and food marketing methods of food-related sponsorship and contracts in Canadian recreation and sport facilities

    Open AccessRachel Prowse, Melanie Warken et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2026

    Objective: To examine the prevalence, financial value, and marketing leveraging methods of food sponsorship agreements and food service contracts in Canadian recreation and sport facilities (RSFs). Design: Cross-sectional survey using descriptive analysis. RSF managers and directors reported the number, value, and types of marketing leveraging methods used in food-related sponsorship agreements and food service contracts. Setting: Publicly funded…

  • Navigating Pandemic Hardships

    Open AccessSe’era May Anstruther, Dana Lee Olstad et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2026Referências: 50

    The COVID‐19 pandemic highlighted the health, economic and social inequities among adults in food‐insecure households. Stigma can exacerbate household food insecurity (HFI) by limiting access to vital resources, including nutritious food. We explored the following among racially/ethnically diverse adults in food‐insecure households in Canada: (1) experiences of HFI during COVID‐19 and (2) programmatic and policy suggestions to reduce dietary ineq…

  • Embodying disadvantage

    Open AccessDana Lee Olstad, Sara Nejatinamini et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Smoking and physical activity may represent mechanisms through which SEP becomes biologically embedded and shapes the risk of mortality among adults in Canada. However, most of the associations between SEP and mortality remained unexplained; thus, additional studies are needed to understand other pathways of biological embedding

  • An environmental scan of financial incentives to increase access to healthy foods

    Open AccessAshley D Quach, Anita Quach et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Considerable heterogeneity was observed in incentive structures, values, and frequencies. Justifications for these designs were often lacking, highlighting the need for further research that directly compares the impact of different incentive structures, amounts, and frequencies on food purchases. Until more empirical evidence is available, program design choices can be guided by precedent, modeled after policy options under consideration (e.g., …

  • Restaurant marketing to kids in Canada

    Open AccessLeia M Minaker, Dana Lee Olstad et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objective: Restaurant marketing to children may be associated with consumption. We examined whether and to what extent reported frequency of restaurant advertisements exposure was associated with consumption and money spent at all types of restaurants among children living in Canada. We also describe what children and youth report as appealing restaurant marketing techniques. Design: This study reports findings from a cross-sectional, online surv…

  • Food deserts, food mirages, and gentrification in Toronto, Canada

    Open AccessPatrycia Menko, Dana Lee Olstad et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2025Referências: 4

    Few studies have explored links between retail food environments and gentrifying neighbourhoods across cities. As populations shift and commercial development continues, unpacking "food gentrification" processes in low-equity areas is important for ensuring healthy and equitable food access across cities. To further investigate this potential phenomenon, we used both primary (retailer consultations) and secondary (Canadian census, Toronto Public …

  • Food and beverage manufacturing and retailing company policies and commitments to improve the healthfulness of Canadian food environments

    Open AccessAlexa Gaucher-Holm, Jasmine Chan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    This study highlights important limitations to self-regulatory approaches of the food and beverage industry to improve the healthfulness of food environments. Although some companies had specific, comprehensive, and transparent policies and commitments to address the healthfulness of food environments in Canada, most fell short of recommended best-practice. Additional mandatory government policies and regulations may be warranted to effectively t…

  • Exploring the prospective acceptability of a healthy food incentive program from the perspective of people with type 2 diabetes and experiences of household food insecurity in Alberta, Canada

    Open AccessSaania Tariq, Dana Lee Olstad et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2024

    Objective: FoodRx is a 12-month healthy food prescription incentive program for people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and experiences of household food insecurity. In this study, we aimed to explore potential users’ prospective acceptability (acceptability prior to program use) of the design and delivery of the FoodRx incentive and identify factors influencing prospective acceptability. Design: We used a qualitative descriptive approach and purposiv…

  • Neighbourhood walkability and transportation and leisure physical activity by residency status

    Open AccessHasti Masihay‐Akbar, Tanvir Chowdhury Turin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Migration and Health2024Referências: 10

    Immigrants engaged in more TPA and less LPA than Canadian-born but adjusting for walkability attenuated TPA differences between residency groups. Walkability was positively associated with TPA, with different magnitude between residency groups

  • Examining gender differences in adolescent exposure to food and beverage marketing through go-along interviews

    Open AccessAshley Amson, Elise Pauzé et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Referências: 50

  • Protecting traditional cultural food practices

    Open AccessDana Lee Olstad, Sara Nejatinamini et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2023

    Adults from six racial/ethnic minority groups had higher diet quality and lower UPF intake, whereas Indigenous adults had poorer diet quality and higher UPF intake compared to White adults between 2004 and 2015. Absolute and relative dietary gaps remained largely stable. Findings suggest racial/ethnic minority groups may have retained some healthful aspects of their traditional cultural food practices while highlighting persistent dietary inequit…

  • Experiences and perceived outcomes of a grocery gift card programme for households at risk of food insecurity

    Open AccessYun Yun Lee, Stephanie Caron-Roy et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: This study explored programme recipients’ and deliverers’ experiences and perceived outcomes of accessing or facilitating a grocery gift card (GGC) programme from I Can for Kids (iCAN), a community-based programme that provides GGC to low-income families with children. Design: This qualitative descriptive study used Freedman et al’s framework of nutritious food access to guide data generation and analysis. Semi-structured interviews we…

  • Identifying factors that shape whether digital food marketing appeals to children

    Open AccessCamilo E Valderrama, Dana Lee Olstad et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: Children are frequently exposed to unhealthy food marketing on digital media. This marketing contains features that often appeal to children, such as cartoons or bold colours. Additional factors can also shape whether marketing appeals to children. In this study, in order to assess the most important predictors of child appeal in digital food marketing, we used machine learning to examine how marketing techniques and children’s socio-d…

  • Extending an Antiracism Lens to the Implementation of Precision Public Health Interventions

    Caitlin Allen, Caitlin G Allen et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2023Citada por: 3Referências: 45

    Precision public health holds promise to improve disease prevention and health promotion strategies, allowing the right intervention to be delivered to the right population at the right time. Growing concerns underscore the potential for precision-based approaches to exacerbate health disparities by relying on biased data inputs and recapitulating existing access inequities. To achieve its full potential, precision public health must focus on add…

  • Choice, Motives, and Mixed Messages

    Open AccessRachel Prowse, Keith Storey et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Unhealthy food and beverage availability and sponsorship undermine healthy food practices in sport and recreation. We conducted a focused ethnography with reflexive photo-interviewing to examine parents' awareness, reactions, and experiences of food and beverage marketing in and around their children's physical activity in public sport and recreation facilities. Eleven parents took photos of what they thought their facility was 'saying about food…

  • Are stress-related pathways of social status differentiation more important determinants of health inequities in countries with higher levels of income inequality

    Open AccessDana Lee Olstad, Sara Nejatinamini et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2022Referências: 82

    We explored socioeconomic gradients in self-rated overall health (SROH) using indicators of materialist (educational attainment and perceived income adequacy) and psychosocial perspectives (subjective social status (SSS)) among adults living in countries with varying levels of income inequality, and the importance of psychosocial stress in mediating these associations. If psychosocial processes at the individual and societal levels correspond, as…

  • Recreation Facility Food and Beverage Environments in Ontario, Canada

    Open AccessSusan Caswell, Patti-Jean Naylor et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Canadian, municipally funded recreation/sport facilities typically have unhealthy food environments. Ontario, unlike some provinces, lacks a voluntary recreation facility nutrition policy. This study assessed the healthfulness of food environments and vending sales in 16 Ontario recreation/sport facilities and, secondarily, compared data from facilities within municipalities that banned versus permitted plastic bottled-water sales (water-ban, n =…

  • My coupons are like gold”

    Open AccessStephanie Caron-Roy, Sayeeda Amber Sayed et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: The British Columbia Farmers’ Market Nutrition Coupon Program (FMNCP) provides low-income households with coupons valued at $21/week for 16 weeks to purchase healthy foods in farmers’ markets. Our objective was to explore FMNCP participants’ experiences of accessing nutritious foods, and perceived program outcomes. Design: This study used qualitative description methodology. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with FMNCP particip…

  • Policy-influencer perspectives on the development, adoption, and implementation of provincial school-based daily physical activity policies across Canada

    Open AccessElizabeth J Campbell, Dana Lee Olstad et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2020

    These findings can inform development of future health-related polices in schools. Stakeholders can, for instance, remain attuned to the opening of political windows and capitalize on them as an opportunity to advocate for policy change or create communities of practice to enhance coordination among policy stakeholders. Future studies that explore why other jurisdictions have failed to adopt DPA policies might yield novel insights regarding lever…

  • A Nutrition Report Card on food environments for children and youth

    Open AccessAlexa R Ferdinands, Dana Lee Olstad et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2020

    Objective: In 2014, a Nutrition Report Card (NRC) was developed as a sustainable, low-cost framework to assess the healthfulness of children’s food environments and highlight action to support healthy eating. We summarise our experiences in producing, disseminating, evaluating and refining an annual NRC in a Canadian province from 2015 to 2019. Design: To produce the NRC, children’s food environment indicator data are collected, analyzed and comp…

  • Baseline results from the Eat, Play, Live trial

    Open AccessDana Lee Olstad, Rachel J L Prowse et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2020

  • Sedentary Behaviour and Hair Cortisol Amongst Women Living in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods

    Open AccessMegan Teychenne, Dana Lee Olstad et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods are at heightened risk of experiencing psychological stress. Therefore, identifying potential risk factors for stress is important to support positive mental health. A growing body of research has linked sedentary behaviour with mental ill-health (e.g., depression and anxiety); however, little research has specifically investigated potential linkages between sedentary behaviour and st…

  • A qualitative study of the drivers of socioeconomic inequalities in men’s eating behaviours

    Open AccessLena D Stephens, David Crawford et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    This study identified key similarities and differences in perceived influences on eating behaviours among men with lower and higher education levels. Further research is needed to determine the extent to which such influences explain socioeconomic variations in men's dietary intakes, and to identify feasible strategies that might support healthy eating among men in different socioeconomic groups

  • Nutritional quality of new food products released into the Australian retail food market in 2015 – is the food industry part of the solution

    Open AccessSheree Spiteri, Sheree A Spiteri et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    This study found that the majority of new products released into the Australian retail food market in 2015 were classified in each of three schemes' least healthy categories. A greater proportion of new products launched by companies that publicly committed to improve the nutritional quality of their products were unhealthy, and a lower proportion were healthy, compared with new products launched by companies that did not so commit. Greater monit…