Design of the <i>Focus on Restaurant Engagement to Strengthen Health</i> (FRESH) study: leveraging systems science to work with independently-owned restaurants to increase access to and promotion of healthful foods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High dietary quality can protect against diet-related chronic diseases. In the United States, racial and ethnic minorities and those with lower incomes consistently exhibit lower dietary quality. Independently-owned restaurants are a common prepared food source in minority low-income communities, but there are significant knowledge gaps on how to work with these restaurants to offer healthy food, due to underlying and dynamic complexities associated with providing healthy food options.

Methods

The Focus on Restaurant Engagement to Strengthen Health (FRESH) study addresses this complex problem by leveraging systems science approaches to work with independently-owned restaurants. FRESH has two interrelated objectives: (1) to test impact on regular customer di

SUBMITTER: Colon-Ramos U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11753239 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature