ReviewAnnual review of public health2015
Identifying the effects of environmental and policy change interventions on healthy eating.
Review in Annual review of public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Socioeconomic inequalities in effectiveness of and compliance to workplace health promotion programs: an individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- The impact of interventions to promote healthier ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets open to the general public: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators to dietary change while aiming to reduce free sugar intakes: framework analysis based on intervention, time for change, and success at 12 weeks.Journal of nutritional science · 2026Trial
- Community Walks: a cluster randomized controlled trial of a multilevel physical activity intervention for low income public housing residents.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Changing the housing environment to reduce obesity in public housing residents: a cluster randomized trial.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Embedding weight management into safety-net pediatric primary care: randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Trial
- A Cluster Randomized Trial to Promote Healthy Menu Items for Children: The Kids' Choice Restaurant Program.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Trial
- OPREVENT2: Design of a multi-institutional intervention for obesity control and prevention for American Indian adults.BMC public health · 2017Trial
- School Nurses and Food Insecurity: Guidance for Advocacy and Action in Schools.NASN school nurse (Print) · 2025Article
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- Subjectively-measured Environmental Support for Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Breastfeeding in the Rural United States: A Scoping Review to Inform Opportunities for Public Health Surveillance.Journal of healthy eating and active living · 2025Article
- Objectively-measured Environmental Support for Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Breastfeeding in the Rural United States: A Scoping Review to Inform Opportunities for Public Health Surveillance.Journal of healthy eating and active living · 2025Article
- A scoping review of policies to encourage breastfeeding, healthy eating, and physical activity among rural people and places in the United States.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Associations between the objective and perceived food environment and eating behavior in relation to socioeconomic status among adults in peri-urban settings: results from the CIVISANO study in Flanders, Belgium.International journal of health geographics · 2024Article
- Evaluation of an Environmental Nutrition Intervention at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Life in lockdown: a qualitative study exploring the experience of living through the initial COVID-19 lockdown in the UK and its impact on diet, physical activity and mental health.BMC public health · 2023Article
- A qualitative exploration of English black adults' views of strength and balance activities in mid-life.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Does an active play standard change childcare physical activity and healthy eating policies? A natural policy experiment.BMC public health · 2022Article
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- Longitudinal associations between objective and perceived healthy food environment and diet: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Obesity has been characterized as a disease. Strategies to change the incidence and prevalence of this disease include a focus on changing physical and social environments, over and above individual-level strategies, using a multilevel or systems approach. We focus our attention on evidence published between 2008 and 2013 on the effectiveness of interventions in nutrition environments, i.e., environmental interventions designed to influence the intake of healthful foods and amount of energy consumed. An overarching socioecological framework that has guided much of this research was used to characterize different types of environmental strategies. Intervention examples in each area of the framework are provided with a discussion of key findings and related conceptual and methodological issues. The emphasis in this review is on adults, but clearly this literature is only one part of the picture. Much research has been focused on child-specific interventions, including environmental interventions. Some evidence suggests effectiveness of policy-based or other types of interventions that aim to regulate or restructure environments to promote healthy dietary choices, and these strategies would apply to both children and adults. Opportunities to evaluate these policy changes in adults' social and physical environments are rare. Much of the existing research has been with children. As conceptual and methodological issues continue to be identified and resolved, we hope that future research in this domain will identify environmental strategies that can be included in intervention toolboxes to build healthy nutrition environments for both adults and children.
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