An eco‐social approach to healthy eating in children

Abstract

The study by Orhan et al. on socio-demographic characteristics and healthy eating in a sample of secondary school students found that those who were from a higher socio-economic background and who were female and had higher 'nutritional self-efficacy' and/or 'nutritional behaviours' (Orhan et al., 2022). I agree with the authors' acknowledgement of their study excluding other important factors that affect nutritional behaviour. The authors' behavioural approach has resulted in the omission of important social and environmental determinants that determine whether the student had equitable access to the nutritional foods they were surveyed about.Therefore, a socio-ecological or eco-social framework would have been more appropriate, as it allows the authors to explore the