An assessment of implementation gaps and priority recommendations on food environment policies: the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The current study aimed to evaluate policies and actions for food environments by the Japanese Government using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI).

Design

Public health experts rated the extent of implementation of food environment-related Policy and the Infrastructure-support components, compared with international best practices. Subsequently, the experts proposed and prioritised future actions to address implementation gaps in an online workshop.

Setting

Japan.

Participants

A total of sixty-six experts rated policy implementation by the Japanese Government and twenty-three participated in the workshop on future actions.

Results

The implementations of regulations on unhealthy foods and non-alcoholic beverages were rated low

SUBMITTER: Yamaguchi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991651 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature