Negotiating healthy food retail initiatives in the research project Healthier Choices in Supermarkets: an ethnographic study of a partnership between health intervention researchers, food retailers, and public health advocates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Partnerships between researchers and food retailers are advocated as necessary for developing sustainable and effective health-promotion initiatives in supermarkets. However, little is known about how such partnerships evolve and influence different phases of intervention research. This study explores how partnerships between researchers and food retailers develop during the pre-intervention phase and examines the factors that influence both the partnerships and the initiatives they produce.

Methods

The empirical case used in the study is a partnership between intervention researchers, food retailers, and public health advocates that aimed to develop and test healthy food retail initiatives to make healthy food choices easy for customers. We conducted an ethnograp

SUBMITTER: Duus KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12001469 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature