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 

Nguyen G, Bell Z, Andreae G, Scott S, Sermin-Reed L, Lake AA, Heslehurst N. Food insecurity during pregnancy in high-income countries, and maternal weight and diet: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obes Rev. 2024 Jul;25(7):e13753. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38693587/

 

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.11:e048180https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/8/e048180 

Vasilevski V, McKay FH, Dunn M, Radelaar E, Wright M, Vuillermin P, Sweet L (2024) Barriers and enablers to antenatal care attendance for women referred to social work services in a Victorian regional hospital: A qualitative descriptive study Women and Birth. 2024 Mar;37(2):443-450. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38246853/   

McKay FH, Vo M, George NA, John P, Kaushal J, & van der Pligt P (online first). Cross-cultural food practices and nutrition seeking behaviors among pregnant and postpartum Indian women living in Australia. Health Care for Women Internationalhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38215307/  

McKay FH, Zinga J, van der Pligt P (online first). Could commercial meal kits be part of the solution to food insecurity during pregnancy? An Australian exploratory study. Nutrition & Dietetics https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37845189/   

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 94-104https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jhn.13233 

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, 76-89https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37120152/ 

McKay, FH., Zinga, J., & van der Pligt, P. (2022). Screening for food insecure during pregnancy: testing an effective brief tool for use in antenatal care. Nutrients3;14(21)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9654102/   

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.https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-022-08587-x   

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.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381473/   

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 1434-1441https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35460501/ 

McKerracher L, Labricciosa J, and Taplin K (2021) Stable housing and food security during pregnancy: A systematic review protocol. OSF, https://osf.io/y3mb2/. 

 

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