Identifying barriers and facilitators in the development and implementation of government-led food environment policies: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Policy-specific actions to improve food environments will support healthy population diets.

Objective

To identify cited barriers and facilitators to food environment policy (FEP) processes reported in the literature, exploring these according to the nature of the policy (voluntary or mandatory) and country development status.

Data sources

A systematic search was conducted of 10 academic and 7 grey-literature databases, national websites, and manual searches of publication references.

Data extraction

Data on government-led FEPs, barriers, and facilitators from key informants were collected.

Data synthesis

The constant-comparison approach generated core themes for barriers and facilitators. The appraisal tool developed by Hawker et al. was adopted

SUBMITTER: Ng S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9263881 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature