National Policies to Limit Food Marketing and Competitive Food Sales in Schools: A Global Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: School food environments contribute to children's nutritional intake and overall health. As such, the World Health Organization and other public health organizations encourage policies that restrict children's access and exposure to foods and beverages that do not build health in and around schools. This global scoping review explores the presence and characteristics of policies that restrict competitive food sales and marketing for unhealthy foods across 193 countries using evidence from policy databases, gray literature, peer-reviewed literature, and primary policy documents. Policies were included if they were nationally mandated and regulated marketing and/or competitive foods in the school environments. Worldwide, only 28% of countries were found to have any national-level policy rest

SUBMITTER: Perry M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11295572 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature