The impact of interventions to promote healthier ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets open to the general public: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Ready-to-eat meals sold by food outlets that are accessible to the general public are an important target for public health intervention. We conducted a systematic review to assess the impact of such interventions.

Methods

Studies of any design and duration that included any consumer-level or food-outlet-level before-and-after data were included.

Results

Thirty studies describing 34 interventions were categorized by type and coded against the Nuffield intervention ladder: restrict choice = trans fat law (n = 1), changing pre-packed children's meal content (n = 1) and food outlet award schemes (n = 2); guide choice = price increases for unhealthier choices (n = 1), incentive (contingent reward) (n = 1) and price decreases for healthier choices (n = 2); ena

SUBMITTER: Hillier-Brown FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5244662 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature