Food Outlets Dietary Risk (FODR) assessment tool: study protocol for assessing the public health nutrition risks of community food environments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Availability and accessibility of nutritious foods can vary according to the food outlets present within a neighbourhood or community. There is increasing evidence that community food environments influence food choice, diet and the risk of diet-related chronic disease, however contemporary community food environments assessments (e.g. unhealthy fast food outlets versus healthy supermarkets or fruit and vegetable shops) may be too simplistic to accurately summarise the complexities of their impacts on food choice. This study protocol describes the development of the Food Outlets Dietary Risk (FODR) assessment tool for use by local government in Perth, Western Australia.

Methods

Similar to food safety risk assessment, the FODR assessment tool rates the potential ha

SUBMITTER: Pulker CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7663896 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature