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John Coveney is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and specializes in research fields related to Medicine and Health Professions. Their publications primarily focus on subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Food Science, Sociology and Political Science, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Culinary Culture and Tourism
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques

Among recent publications by John Coveney are:

  • Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Juice, Artificially-Sweetened Soda and Bottled Water: An Australian Population Study, 2020, published in Nutrients
  • Developing and Maintaining Public Trust During and Post-COVID-19: Can We Apply a Model Developed for Responding to Food Scares?, 2020, published in Frontiers in Public Health
  • What can families gain from the family meal? A mixed-papers systematic review, 2020, published in Appetite
  • Resetting the Narrative in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nutrition Research, 2020, published in Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Nothing beats taste or convenience: a national survey of where and why people buy sugary drinks in Australia, 2020, published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Coveney frequently publishes in several academic venues including:

  • Appetite
  • Nutrients
  • Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition
  • British Food Journal
  • SSM - Qualitative Research in Health

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Caroline Miller, Kerry Ettridge, Melanie Wakefield, Simone Pettigrew, and David Roder, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Exploring nutrition knowledge and the demographic variation in knowledge levels in an Australian community sample.

    Gillian Anne Hendrie;John Coveney;David Cox

  • Effects of mobility and location on food access

    John David Coveney;Lisel Alice O'Dwyer

  • Food, Morals and Meaning: The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating

    John David Coveney

  • Trust in the health system: An analysis and extension of the social theories of Giddens and Luhmann

    Samantha Meyer;Paul Ward;John Coveney;Wendy Rogers

  • In Pursuit of the Study of Pleasure: Implications for Health Research and Practice

    John David Coveney;R Bunton

  • Public health nutrition and food policy.

    Martin Caraher;John Coveney

  • Measuring capacity building in communities: a review of the literature

    Selma C. Liberato;Julie K. Brimblecombe;Jan E. Ritchie;Jan E. Ritchie;Megan M. Ferguson

  • Characteristics of Effective Interventions Promoting Healthy Eating for Pre-Schoolers in Childcare Settings: An Umbrella Review

    Louisa Matwiejczyk;Kaye Mehta;Jane Scott;Emma Tonkin

  • Marketing foods to children through product packaging: prolific, unhealthy and misleading

    Kaye Mehta;Clare Phillips;Paul Ward;John Coveney

  • Governing childhood obesity: Framing regulation of fast food advertising in the Australian print media

    Julie Henderson;John Coveney;Paul Ward;Anne Taylor

  • An ecological analysis of factors associated with food insecurity in South Australia, 2002-7.

    Wendy Foley;Paul Russell Ward;Patricia Carter;John David Coveney

  • A systematic review of interventions to support the careers of women in academic medicine and other disciplines

    Kate Laver;Ivanka Joyce Prichard;Monica Cations;Ivana Osenk

  • Validation of the General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire in an Australian community sample

    Gillian A. Hendrie;Gillian A. Hendrie;David N. Cox;John Coveney

  • A qualitative study exploring socio-economic differences in parental lay knowledge of food and health: implications for public health nutrition

    John David Coveney

  • Reconnecting Australian consumers and producers: Identifying problems of distrust

    Samantha B Meyer;John David Coveney;Julie Anne Henderson;Paul Russell Ward

  • Food Stress in Adelaide: The Relationship between Low Income and the Affordability of Healthy Food

    Paul Russell Ward;Fiona Elizabeth Verity;P Carter;George Tsourtos

  • Trust in and through labelling – a systematic review and critique

    Emma Tonkin;Annabelle M Wilson;John Coveney;Trevor Webb

  • Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Juice, Artificially-Sweetened Soda and Bottled Water: An Australian Population Study.

    Caroline Miller;Kerry Ettridge;Melanie Wakefield;Simone Pettigrew

  • Defining the complexity of childhood obesity and related behaviours within the family environment using structural equation modelling.

    Gilly A Hendrie;John Coveney;David N Cox

  • Developing and Maintaining Public Trust During and Post-COVID-19: Can We Apply a Model Developed for Responding to Food Scares?

    Julie Henderson;Paul R. Ward;Emma Tonkin;Samantha B. Meyer

  • Food and trust in Australia: building a picture

    John David Coveney

  • The government and ethics of health promotion: the importance of Michel Foucault

    J. Coveney

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Ward
Paul Ward Torrens University Australia
Elizabeth Waters
Elizabeth Waters University of Melbourne
Sarah Durkin
Sarah Durkin Cancer Council Victoria
Steven Allender
Steven Allender Deakin University
Simone Pettigrew
Simone Pettigrew George Institute for Global Health
Michael .W. Calnan
Michael .W. Calnan University of Kent
Martin Caraher
Martin Caraher City, University of London
Nicholas Graves
Nicholas Graves Queensland University of Technology
Anthony H. Winefield
Anthony H. Winefield University of South Australia
Ross S. Bailie
Ross S. Bailie University of Sydney

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