The use of private regulatory measures to create healthy food retail environments: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Different forms of public and private regulation have been used to improve the healthiness of food retail environments. The aim of this scoping review was to systematically examine the types of private regulatory measures used to create healthy food retail environments, the reporting of the processes of implementation, monitoring, review and enforcement and the barriers to and enablers of these.

Design

Scoping review using the Johanna Briggs Institute guidelines. Ovid MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Embase, CINAHL Plus, Business Source Complete and Scopus databases were searched in October 2020 and again in September 2023 using terms for 'food retail', 'regulation' and 'nutrition'. Regulatory measure type was described by domain and mechanism. Deductive thematic analysis was us

SUBMITTER: Dancey J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11010160 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature