PHO Rounds: Visiting Speaker - Integrating Healthy Eating and Mental Health Promotion into Public Health Practice

PHO Rounds: Visiting Speaker - Integrating Healthy Eating and Mental Health Promotion into Public Health Practice

The co-occurrence of various health-compromising behaviours such as low physical activity, sedentary activities, substance use, poor sleep quality and unhealthy diet highlight the need to use systems science approaches to better understand and promote mental health.

With an emphasis on current evidence about the various relationships between eating behaviours and mental health, this presentation discusses risk and protective factors connected to nutritional and mental health promotion. Additionally, it highlights how multiple mental health-compromising behaviours may be mediated by an ever-changing system that encapsulates factors such as social engagement, built environments, mass media, as well as health and social policies that impact population mental health. The presentation highlights current best practices and systems approaches, examples of comprehensive strategies that foster both healthy eating and mental health promotion that are applicable to public health practice.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain the intersections between nutrition and mental health
• Discuss how unhealthy eating can occur amongst various clusters of health-compromising behaviours
• Discuss strategies that integrate healthy eating and mental health promotion

Presenter: Dr. Karen Davison

Dr. Davison is the Health Science Program Chair at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her investigative interests are aimed at food and nutrition practices that foster mental health among diverse populations. She is currently an Associate Editor for BMC Public Health and Academic Editor for PLOSONE. She has been awarded two Canadian Institutes for Health Research Fellowships and a Dietitians of Canada Peer Recognition Award. She is also the first Canadian registered dietitian to be a Fulbright Canada Research Chair and to be inducted into the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.

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