An accountability framework to promote healthy food environments

VI Kraak, B Swinburn, M Lawrence… - Public health nutrition, 2014 - cambridge.org
… Empirical research suggests that food environments … In the present paper, healthy food
environments are defined … , food retail outlets) that provide people with regular access to a …

Healthy food access for urban food desert residents: examination of the food environment, food purchasing practices, diet and BMI

T Dubowitz, SN Zenk, B Ghosh-Dastidar… - Public health …, 2015 - cambridge.org
… Most of this research has focused solely on the neighbourhood food environment and has
assumed that residents shop for food near their homes. Although this assumption has been …

… ‐country study to benchmark the implementation of recommended nutrition policies by national governments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index, 2015 …

S Vandevijvere, S Barquera, G Caceres… - Obesity …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… to create healthy food environments by national governments compared with international
best practices across 11 countries in different regions globally and (2) to evaluate the Food‐…

The local food environment and diet: a systematic review

CE Caspi, G Sorensen, SV Subramanian, I Kawachi - Health & place, 2012 - Elsevier
… Availability refers to the adequacy of the supply of healthy food; examples in the food
environment might include the presence of certain types of restaurants near people's homes, or the …

Dynamic urban food environments: a temporal analysis of access to healthy foods

MJ Widener, SS Metcalf, Y Bar-Yam - American journal of preventive …, 2011 - Elsevier
… For these reasons, a static conception of the food environment is … the urban food environment
over the year in a cold-weather city with a high prevalence of poverty and evidence of food

Measuring the food environment: state of the science

LA Lytle - American journal of preventive medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
health practitioners and researchers attempt to understand the impact of the food environment
on the health of … is with regard to how the food environment is measured, thoughts on what …

Government regulation to promote healthy food environments–a view from inside state governments

J Shill, H Mavoa, S Allender, M Lawrence… - Obesity …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
environments. This study sought to identify regulatory interventions targeting the food
environment, … for regulatory interventions for healthier food environments and (ii) support for pre-…

Strengthening of accountability systems to create healthy food environments and reduce global obesity

B Swinburn, V Kraak, H Rutter, S Vandevijvere… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
… improve the healthiness of food environments. Substantial debate … to regulate for healthier
food environments, quasiregulatory … in creating demand for healthy food environments and in …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of healthy food environment policies to prevent nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in Ghana: national experts' assessment of …

A Laar, A Barnes, R Aryeetey, A Tandoh, K Bash… - Food Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
… This study identified gaps in Ghana’s implementation of internationally-recommended
policies to promote healthy food environments. National stakeholders recommended actions, …

The social dynamics of healthy food shopping and store choice in an urban environment

CC Cannuscio, A Hillier, A Karpyn, K Glanz - Social science & medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
… -ecological dynamics of food shopping in an urban food environment, examining how residents
… a range of ways in which participants actively adapted to their local food environments. …