Lathika Athauda
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 7790234 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lathika Athauda |
| NOMBRES | Lathika |
| APELLIDO | Athauda |
| FIRMA | ATHAUDA L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kelaniya |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2942-0880 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Happy Village Plus
BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for over 80% of deaths in Sri Lanka. Addressing these diseases is challenging due to their complex social, behavioural, and environmental causes. Community-based health promotion programmes focused solely on single risk factors and education provision show limited effectiveness. This study describes Happy Village Plus (HVP), a grassroots, community-based intervention designed to select and impl…
To eat and to know what you eat”
Improving nutrition through dietary modification is important for prevention of non-communicable diseases. Lack of culturally-apt diet recording tools undermine the accurate assessment of dietary behaviors of a population, in research and practice. This study aimed to explore public perceptions on diet and diet recording in the Sri Lankan setting, as a preliminary step in designing a diet recording tool that reflects local food culture and eating…
Assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards
BACKGROUND: The alcohol industry uses many of the tobacco industry's strategies to influence policy-making, yet unlike the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, there is no intergovernmental guidance on protecting policies from alcohol industry influence. Systematic assessment of alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards is also lacking. Here, we aimed to identify the nature and extent of industry penetration in a cross-section of…
Effects of a lifestyle intervention programme after 1 year of follow-up among South Asians at high risk of type 2 diabetes
INTRODUCTION: South Asians are at high risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). We assessed whether intensive family-based lifestyle intervention leads to significant weight loss, improved glycaemia and blood pressure in adults at elevated risk for T2D. METHODS: This cluster randomised controlled trial (iHealth-T2D) was conducted at 120 locations across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UK. We included 3684 South Asian men and women, aged 40-70 years, wit…
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Effects of a lifestyle intervention programme after 1 year of follow-up among South Asians at high risk of type 2 diabetes
INTRODUCTION: South Asians are at high risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). We assessed whether intensive family-based lifestyle intervention leads to significant weight loss, improved glycaemia and blood pressure in adults at elevated risk for T2D. METHODS: This cluster randomised controlled trial (iHealth-T2D) was conducted at 120 locations across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UK. We included 3684 South Asian men and women, aged 40-70 years, wit…
Assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards
BACKGROUND: The alcohol industry uses many of the tobacco industry's strategies to influence policy-making, yet unlike the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, there is no intergovernmental guidance on protecting policies from alcohol industry influence. Systematic assessment of alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards is also lacking. Here, we aimed to identify the nature and extent of industry penetration in a cross-section of…
To eat and to know what you eat”
Improving nutrition through dietary modification is important for prevention of non-communicable diseases. Lack of culturally-apt diet recording tools undermine the accurate assessment of dietary behaviors of a population, in research and practice. This study aimed to explore public perceptions on diet and diet recording in the Sri Lankan setting, as a preliminary step in designing a diet recording tool that reflects local food culture and eating…
Happy Village Plus
BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for over 80% of deaths in Sri Lanka. Addressing these diseases is challenging due to their complex social, behavioural, and environmental causes. Community-based health promotion programmes focused solely on single risk factors and education provision show limited effectiveness. This study describes Happy Village Plus (HVP), a grassroots, community-based intervention designed to select and impl…
Public health (2 obras) · Advertising (1 obras) · Alcohol industry (1 obras) · Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes (1 obras) · Biostatistics (1 obras) · Business (1 obras) · Cluster randomised controlled trial (1 obras) · Community Health and Development (1 obras) · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (1 obras) · Diabetes Management and Education (1 obras)