Publications

Research papers 

Bell Z, Scott S, Visram S, Rankin J, Bambra C, Heslehurst N (2023) Children’s nutritional health and wellbeing in food insecure households in Europe: A qualitative meta-ethnography. PLOS ONE.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292178 

Bell Z, Scott S, Visram S, Rankin J, Bambra C, Heslehurst N (2022) Experiences and perceptions of nutritional health and wellbeing amongst food insecure women in Europe: A qualitative meta-ethnography. Social Science and Medicine. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622006190 

 

Protocols  

Bell Z, Scott S, Visram S, Rankin J, Bambra C, Heslehurst N (2021) Food insecurity and the nutritional health and well-being of women and children in high-income countries: protocol for a qualitative systematic review. BMJ Open. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/8/e048180  

Dickson A, McKay FH, Zinga J, and van der Pligt P (2024) Antenatal Healthcare Providers’ knowledge, attitudes and practises regarding food insecurity in pregnancy: A qualitative investigation based at a specialist antenatal hospital in Melbourne, Australia Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Volume 37, Issue 1, pp 94-104  

Zinga J, van der Pligt P, Lindberg R, Lee A, McKay FH (2024) Food insecurity screening procedures used in reproductive healthcare settings. Nutrition Reviews. 82, 1, 76-89  

McKay, FH., Zinga, J., & van der Pligt, P. (2022). Consensus from an expert panel on how to identify and support food insecurity during pregnancy: a modified Delphi study. BMC Health Services Research, 22, 1231. 

McKay FH, Spiteri S, Zinga J, Sulemani K, Jacobs SE, Ranjan N, Ralph L, Raeburn E, Threlfall S, Bergmeier ML, and van der Pligt P (2022) Systematic review of interventions addressing food insecurity in pregnant women and new mothers. Current Nutrition Reports Vol 11, Issue 3, pp 489-499. 

Zinga J, McKay FH, Lindberg R, and van der Pligt P (2022) Experiences of food-insecure pregnant women and factors influencing their food choices. Maternal and Child Health. Vol 26, Issue 7, pp 1434-1441 

 

Published conference abstracts 

Gemma Andreae, Stephanie Scott, Giang Nguyen, Zoë Bell, Hannah Mehmood, Letitia Sermin-Reed, Nicola Heslehurst (2022) Food insecurity among pregnant women living in high-income countries: a systematic review. The Lancet. 400: S17 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)02227-9/fulltext 

Ilse Wigman, Shelina Visram, Zoë Bell, Nicola Heslehurst (2022) UK news media portrayal of mothers living in food insecurity since the 2008 global financial crisis: a mixed-methods news media analysis. The Lancet. 400: S46 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)02256-5/fulltext  

Nguyen G, Aucott L, McNeill G, Douglas F. Identifying a potential tool to measure household food insecurity in the UK: a systematic review. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 2017;76(OCE4):E184. doi:10.1017/S0029665117003469 

Nguyen G, Bell Z, Andreae G, Scott S, Sermin-Reed L, Lake AA, et al. S03-03 Meta-analysis of associations between food insecurity, maternal obesity, gestational weight gain, and maternal and infant pregnancy health outcomes in high-income countries. International Journal of Obesity. 2024;48(1):1-46 

 

Dissertations and theses 

Zoë Bell (2023) “It ripples through, it's like dropping a stone into a pond…the ripple effect is huge”: Food insecurity and health: Insights from women, children, and frontline workers. Doctoral thesis. Newcastle University. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/5844