The use of contracts to implement and manage healthy vending: best practice recommendations for effective and sustained interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contracts can be an effective lever to implement and manage health-enabling food retail environments. However, guidance for the effective use of contracts in food retail settings is limited. The use of contracts to create healthy food vending environments is one area where policy attention has been focussed in high income countries. We applied a public health regulatory framework to publicly available guidance documents on healthy vending to develop best practice recommendations for using contracts to create healthy food vending environments.

Methods

Document analysis involved i) snowball sampling to identify eligible publicly available healthy vending guidance documents from an identified seed paper; ii) application of a public health regulatory framework to extr

SUBMITTER: Dancey J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11577719 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature