Paper short abstract:

The research addresses how health interventions can be integrated in daily chores to different recipient groups. Specifically, it is analysed, discussed and case-study-tested, whether prevention measures may be easier to implement ‘to go’, firstly focusing the social-ecologic setting.

Paper long abstract:

The worldwide prevalence of obesity and overweight and their health effects remain a global epidemic; which threatens different cultural configurations, not only in the northern hemisphere, but also in the southern hemisphere. The consequences of nutrition related misbehavior are a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, coronary heart diseases, cancers or, chronic respiratory diseases, arthrosis, or organoleptic outcomes. NCDs are responsible for 71% of all deaths globally.

Double burden of malnutrition is specifically targeting cultural configurations with lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

Within public health, nutrition sovereignty is an overlooked feature. This involves food security - access to food - as well as nutrition security - access to a variety of foods. Nutrition sovereignty describes sovereignty to choose and take up, healthy nutrition. Especially the coordination and competencies to bring all aspects together, is often lacking. Hence, often the systemic failure in daily delivery is higher than the individual knowledge or access.

The present research addresses how a socio-ecological approach, which aims to ease health behavior in regard to the NCDs, using a simple daily shopping facility (health ‘kiosk’) in combination with existing information treatments.

Grounded in case-study report the research assesses the perception of socio-ecological interventions, which target population ‘to go’, during the daily chores in their socio-ecologic surrounding. The coordination problem will therefore be focused and rolled out to people of all life circumstances. The proliferation, usage and uptake of the information is further left to the individual; leaving a highest level of personal (health) sovereignty.