Altering the availability of products within physical micro-environments: a conceptual framework.

ABSTRACT: Altering the availability of products (e.g. food, alcohol or tobacco products) is one potential intervention to change behaviours to help reduce preventable premature deaths worldwide. However, research on these interventions lacks consistent conceptualisation, hindering clear reporting and cumulative synthesis. This paper proposes a conceptual framework - categorising intervention types and summarising constituent components - with which interventions can be reliably described and evidence synthesised. Three principal distinctions are proposed: interventions altering: (i) Absolute Availability (changing the overall number of options, while keeping the proportions comprised by any subsets of options constant); (ii) Relative Availability (changing the proportion comprised by a subset of opt

SUBMITTER: Pechey R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7322874 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature