Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments: a proposed G overnment H ealthy F ood E …

B Swinburn, S Vandevijvere, V Kraak, G Sacks… - Obesity …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Government action is essential to increase the healthiness of food environments and reduce
obesity, diet‐related non‐communicable diseases (NCD s), and their related inequalities …

INFORMAS (I nternational N etwork for F ood and O besity/non‐communicable diseases R esearch, M onitoring and A ction S upport): overview and key principles

B Swinburn, G Sacks, S Vandevijvere… - Obesity …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐communicable diseases (NCD s) dominate disease burdens globally and poor
nutrition increasingly contributes to this global burden. Comprehensive monitoring of food …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking as a public health strategy for creating healthy food environments: an evaluation of the INFORMAS initiative (2012–2020)

G Sacks, J Kwon, S Vandevijvere… - Annual review of public …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and obesity are the leading contributors to
poor health worldwide. Efforts to improve population diets need to focus on creating healthy …

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
Food policy interventions are an important component of obesity‐prevention strategies and
can potentially drive positive changes in obesogenic environments. This study sought to …

A proposed approach to monitor private‐sector policies and practices related to food environments, obesity and non‐communicable disease prevention

G Sacks, B Swinburn, V Kraak, S Downs… - obesity …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Private‐sector organizations play a critical role in shaping the food environments of
individuals and populations. However, there is currently very limited independent monitoring …

An 11‐country study to benchmark the implementation of recommended nutrition policies by national governments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index …

S Vandevijvere, S Barquera, G Caceres… - Obesity …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food‐EPI) aims to assess the extent
of implementation of recommended food environment policies by governments compared …

Health Public Policy Public opinion on food-related obesity prevention policy initiatives

B Morley, J Martin, P Niven… - Health Promotion Journal …, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
Issue addressed: The study was designed to determine public acceptability of various forms
of regulation to support a healthy eating environment. Methods: Telephone interviews were …

An accountability framework to promote healthy food environments

VI Kraak, B Swinburn, M Lawrence… - Public health nutrition, 2014 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo review the available literature on accountability frameworks to construct a
framework that is relevant to voluntary partnerships between government and food industry …

[PDF][PDF] Solving population-wide obesity-progress and future prospects

S Kumanyika, WH Dietz - N Engl J Med, 2020 - bookcafe.yuntsg.com
Solving Population-wide Obesity n engl j med 383; 23 nejm. org December 3, 2020 fast
Programs and foods sold separately from school meals (which were later incorporated into …

[HTML][HTML] Policy implementation and priorities to create healthy food environments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): A pooled level analysis …

E Pineda, MP Poelman, A Aaspõllu, M Bica… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Food environments have been recognised as highly influential on population
diets. Government policies have great potential to create healthy food environments to …