Implementing healthy food environment policies in New Zealand: nine years of inaction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The INFORMAS [International Network for Food and Obesity/Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) Research, Monitoring and Action Support] Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) was developed to evaluate the degree of implementation of widely recommended food environment policies by national governments against international best practice, and has been applied in New Zealand in 2014, 2017 and 2020. This paper outlines the 2020 Food-EPI process and compares policy implementation and recommendations with the 2014 and 2017 Food-EPI.

Methods

In March-April 2020, a national panel of over 50 public health experts participated in Food-EPI. Experts rated the extent of implementation of 47 "good practice" policy and infrastructure support indicators compared to internati

SUBMITTER: Mackay S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8760574 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature