Translating Developmental Origins: Improving the Health of Women and Their Children Using a Sustainable Approach to Behaviour Change
Theories of the developmental origins of health and disease imply that optimising the growth and development of babies is an essential route to improving the health of populations. A key factor in the growth of babies is the nutritional status of their mothers. Since women from more disadvantaged ba...
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| author | Mary Barker Janis Baird Tannaze Tinati Christina Vogel Sofia Strömmer Taylor Rose Rufia Begum Megan Jarman Jenny Davies Sue Thompson Liz Taylor Hazel Inskip Cyrus Cooper Don Nutbeam Wendy Lawrence |
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| description | Theories of the developmental origins of health and disease imply that optimising the growth and development of babies is an essential route to improving the health of populations. A key factor in the growth of babies is the nutritional status of their mothers. Since women from more disadvantaged backgrounds have poorer quality diets and the worst pregnancy outcomes, they need to be a particular focus. The behavioural sciences have made a substantial contribution to the development of interventions to support dietary changes in disadvantaged women. Translation of such interventions into routine practice is an ideal that is rarely achieved, however. This paper illustrates how re-orientating health and social care services towards an empowerment approach to behaviour change might underpin a new developmental focus to improving long-term health, using learning from a community-based intervention to improve the diets and lifestyles of disadvantaged women. The Southampton Initiative for Health aimed to improve the diets and lifestyles of women of child-bearing age through training health and social care practitioners in skills to support behaviour change. Analysis illustrates the necessary steps in mounting such an intervention: building trust; matching agendas and changing culture. The Southampton Initiative for Health demonstrates that developing sustainable; workable interventions and effective community partnerships; requires commitment beginning long before intervention delivery but is key to the translation of developmental origins research into improvements in human health. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-541f9de0f6204b198a5bad1500dfcf122022-12-22T03:09:17ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322017-03-01511710.3390/healthcare5010017healthcare5010017Translating Developmental Origins: Improving the Health of Women and Their Children Using a Sustainable Approach to Behaviour ChangeMary Barker0Janis Baird1Tannaze Tinati2Christina Vogel3Sofia Strömmer4Taylor Rose5Rufia Begum6Megan Jarman7Jenny Davies8Sue Thompson9Liz Taylor10Hazel Inskip11Cyrus Cooper12Don Nutbeam13Wendy Lawrence14MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UKMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UKNIHR Dissemination Centre, University of Southampton, Alpha House, Enterprise Road, Southampton SO16 7NS, UKMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UKMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UKMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UKFormerly of NIHR Nutrition Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UKLi Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation, Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T7X 5A1, CanadaFormerly of Southampton City Council Public Health Team, Southampton City Council, Civic Centre, Southampton SO14 7LY, UKCommissioner, Integrated Commissioning Unit, Southampton City Council, Civic Centre, Southampton SO14 7LY, UKFormer Senior Commissioning Manager for NHS Southampton, NHS Southampton HQ, Oakley Road, Millbrook, Southampton SO16 4GX, UKMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UKMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UKSydney Medical School, Edward Ford Building A27, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, AustraliaMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UKTheories of the developmental origins of health and disease imply that optimising the growth and development of babies is an essential route to improving the health of populations. A key factor in the growth of babies is the nutritional status of their mothers. Since women from more disadvantaged backgrounds have poorer quality diets and the worst pregnancy outcomes, they need to be a particular focus. The behavioural sciences have made a substantial contribution to the development of interventions to support dietary changes in disadvantaged women. Translation of such interventions into routine practice is an ideal that is rarely achieved, however. This paper illustrates how re-orientating health and social care services towards an empowerment approach to behaviour change might underpin a new developmental focus to improving long-term health, using learning from a community-based intervention to improve the diets and lifestyles of disadvantaged women. The Southampton Initiative for Health aimed to improve the diets and lifestyles of women of child-bearing age through training health and social care practitioners in skills to support behaviour change. Analysis illustrates the necessary steps in mounting such an intervention: building trust; matching agendas and changing culture. The Southampton Initiative for Health demonstrates that developing sustainable; workable interventions and effective community partnerships; requires commitment beginning long before intervention delivery but is key to the translation of developmental origins research into improvements in human health.http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/5/1/17behaviour changedevelopmental originsdietmaternal nutritiondisadvantage |
| spellingShingle | Mary Barker Janis Baird Tannaze Tinati Christina Vogel Sofia Strömmer Taylor Rose Rufia Begum Megan Jarman Jenny Davies Sue Thompson Liz Taylor Hazel Inskip Cyrus Cooper Don Nutbeam Wendy Lawrence Translating Developmental Origins: Improving the Health of Women and Their Children Using a Sustainable Approach to Behaviour Change Healthcare behaviour change developmental origins diet maternal nutrition disadvantage |
| title | Translating Developmental Origins: Improving the Health of Women and Their Children Using a Sustainable Approach to Behaviour Change |
| title_full | Translating Developmental Origins: Improving the Health of Women and Their Children Using a Sustainable Approach to Behaviour Change |
| title_fullStr | Translating Developmental Origins: Improving the Health of Women and Their Children Using a Sustainable Approach to Behaviour Change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Translating Developmental Origins: Improving the Health of Women and Their Children Using a Sustainable Approach to Behaviour Change |
| title_short | Translating Developmental Origins: Improving the Health of Women and Their Children Using a Sustainable Approach to Behaviour Change |
| title_sort | translating developmental origins improving the health of women and their children using a sustainable approach to behaviour change |
| topic | behaviour change developmental origins diet maternal nutrition disadvantage |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/5/1/17 |
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