Deakin Rural Health, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Victoria, Warrnambool, Australia.
Research Unit, Colac Area Health, Victoria, Colac, Australia.
Aust J Rural Health. 2023 Oct;31(5):1027-1031. doi: 10.1111/ajr.13041. Epub 2023 Sep 18.
The aim of this study was to summarise key evidence from recent Australian rural nutrition research and provide recommendations for future nutrition and dietetics research with rural communities.
Clear evidence demonstrates that diet plays a role in the health gap between rural and metropolitan Australia. Despite the opportunity to address the health of rural Australians through better nutrition, alarmingly low investment in nutrition and dietetics research has occurred historically, and over the past decade.
A review of the evidence was undertaken by rural nutrition and dietetics leaders to provide a commentary piece to inform future rural nutrition research efforts.
Establishing strong, collaborative place-based nutrition and dietetics research teams are necessary to combat the significant gaps in the scientific knowledge of solutions to improve nutrition in rural Australia. Further, dieticians and nutritionists who live in and understand the rural contexts are yet to be fully harnessed in research, and better engaging with these professionals will have the best chance of successfully addressing the nutrition-related disease disparity between rural and metropolitan Australia.
本研究旨在总结澳大利亚农村营养研究的最新关键证据，并为未来农村社区的营养和饮食学研究提供建议。
明确的证据表明，饮食在澳大利亚农村和城市地区之间的健康差距中起着作用。尽管有机会通过更好的营养来改善澳大利亚农村居民的健康，但历史上和过去十年中，对营养和饮食学研究的投资惊人地低。
农村营养和饮食学领域的领导者对证据进行了审查，以提供一篇评论文章，为未来的农村营养研究工作提供信息。
建立强大的、协作的基于地点的营养和饮食学研究团队是必要的，以应对改善澳大利亚农村营养方面的科学知识存在巨大差距的问题。此外，生活在农村环境并了解农村情况的营养师和营养学家尚未充分参与到研究中，更好地与这些专业人员合作将有最好的机会成功解决澳大利亚农村和城市地区之间与营养相关的疾病差距。
