Relative contributions of recommended food environment policies to improve population nutrition: results from a Delphi study with international food policy experts.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine weightings for the relative contributions of nineteen widely recommended good practice food environment policies to improve population nutrition, based on evidence of effectiveness and expert ratings, to facilitate benchmarking of the implementation of food environment policies globally.

Design

A two-round Delphi study was performed in 2015, whereby international food policy experts (n Round1 27, n Round2 21) compared effectiveness of all possible pairs of policy domains and good practice policies within domains to improve population nutrition according to the Saaty scale (1 to 9). Weightings for each domain and policy were derived from expert ratings based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process method.

Setting

International.

Subjects

Food pol

SUBMITTER: Mahesh R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10260850 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature