Protecting children from unhealthy food marketing: a comparative policy analysis in Australia, Fiji and Thailand.

ABSTRACT: Restrictions on marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children is a globally recommended policy measure to improve diets and health. The aim of the analysis was to identify opportunities to enable policy learning and shift beliefs of relevant actors, to engender policy progress on restrictions on marketing of unhealthy foods to children. We drew on the Advocacy Coalition Framework to thematically analyse data from qualitative policy interviews conducted Australia (n = 24), Fiji (n = 10) and Thailand (n = 20). In all three countries two clear and opposing advocacy coalitions were evident within the policy subsystem related to regulation of unhealthy food marketing, which we termed the 'strengthen regulation' and 'minimal/self regulation' coalitions. Contributors to policy stasis on

SUBMITTER: Thow AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10681351 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature