A systems framework for implementing healthy food retail in grocery settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food retailers can be reluctant to initiate healthy food retail activities in the face of a complex set of interrelated drivers that impact the retail environment. The Systems Thinking Approach for Retail Transformation (START) is a determinants framework created using qualitative systems modelling to guide healthy food retail interventions in community-based, health-promoting settings. We aimed to test the applicability of the START map to a suite of distinct healthy food marketing and promotion activities that formed an intervention in a grocery setting in regional Victoria, Australia.

Methods

A secondary analysis was undertaken of 16 previously completed semi-structured interviews with independent grocery retailers and stakeholders. Interviews were deductively

SUBMITTER: Zorbas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10777568 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature