Title |
Creating healthy food environments through global benchmarking of government nutrition policies and food industry practices
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Published in |
Archives of Public Health, March 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/2049-3258-72-7 |
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Authors |
Stefanie Vandevijvere, Boyd Swinburn |
Abstract |
Unhealthy processed food products are increasingly dominating over healthy foods, making food and nutrition environments unhealthier. Development and implementation of strong government healthy food policies is currently being circumvented in many countries by powerful food industry lobbying. In order to increase accountability of both governments and the private sector for their actions, and improve the healthiness of food environments, INFORMAS (the International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Research, Monitoring and Action Support) has recently been founded to systematically and comprehensively monitor food environments and policies in countries of varying size and income. This will enable INFORMAS to rank both governments and private sector companies globally according to their actions on food environments. Identification of those countries which have the healthiest food and nutrition policies and using them as international benchmarks against which national progress towards best practice can be assessed, should support reductions in global obesity and diet-related NCDs. |
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Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 5 | 28% |
United States | 2 | 11% |
Australia | 1 | 6% |
Denmark | 1 | 6% |
Norway | 1 | 6% |
Belgium | 1 | 6% |
Unknown | 7 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 7 | 39% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 33% |
Scientists | 5 | 28% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 55 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 10 | 18% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 16% |
Lecturer | 6 | 11% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
Other | 12 | 22% |
Unknown | 6 | 11% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 24% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 15% |
Social Sciences | 8 | 15% |
Psychology | 3 | 5% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
Other | 10 | 18% |
Unknown | 11 | 20% |