Improving food environments and tackling obesity: A realist systematic review of the policy success of regulatory interventions targeting population nutrition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This systematic review (PROSPERO: CRD42015025276) employs a realist approach to investigate the effect of "real-world" policies targeting different aspects of the food environment that shape individual and collective nutrition.

Objectives

We were interested in assessing intermediate outcomes along the assumed causal pathway to "policy success", in addition to the final outcome of changed consumption patterns.

Data sources

We performed a search of 16 databases through October 2015, with no initial restriction by language.

Study eligibility criteria

We included all publications that reported the effect of statutory provisions aimed at reducing the consumption of energy-dense foods and beverages in the general population. We allowed all methodological a

SUBMITTER: Sisnowski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544242 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature