Community Organising Frameworks, Models, and Processes to Improve Health: A Systematic Scoping Review.

Community involvement engages, empowers, and mobilises people to achieve their shared goals by addressing structural inequalities in the social and built environment. Through this review, we summarised published information on models, frameworks, and/or processes of community organising used in the context of health initiatives or interventions and documented the outcomes following their use. A systematic scoping review was conducted in three databases with no restrictions on the date of publication, country, or written language.

Geographic remoteness and socioeconomic disadvantage reduce the supportiveness of food and physical activity environments in Australia.

Objective: An analysis of food and physical activity environments in relation to socioeconomic disadvantage was conducted in 25 communities across Queensland, Australia.

Methods: Physical activity and food environments were assessed in 25 Queensland communities using The Systematic Pedestrian and Cycling Environmental Scan (SPACES) and the Nutrition Environment Measurement Survey (NEMS). Spearman's correlation tested the association between physical activity and food environments and degree of remoteness and socioeconomic disadvantage of each region.

Physical Activity, Mental Health, and Wellbeing among Older Adults in South and Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review.

Background: Physical activity is believed to enhance body functions and sense of wellbeing in general population.

Objectives: This study aimed to explore physical activity measures; and the association between those measures, and mental wellbeing among older adults in South and Southeast Asia.

Methods: A systematic search was made in CINHAL, EMBASE, PubMed, and PsycINFO.

Barriers and facilitators to physical activity among urban residents with diabetes in Nepal.

Introduction: Physical activity is an important component of type 2 diabetes management. Physical activity level among general population in Nepal is reported to vary considerably. However, knowledge on physical activity in Nepali diabetics is very limited.