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SynthesisCurrent nutrition reports2019

A Systematic Review of the Effect of Retail Food Environment Interventions on Diet and Health with a Focus on the Enabling Role of Public Policies.

Catherine L Mah, Gabriella Luongo, Rebecca Hasdell, Nathan G A Taylor, Brian K Lo

Open access · hybridAbstract readSystematic Review
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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Current nutrition reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
73citing papers in PubMed, 10 pooled it
11.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 132 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The implementation and effectiveness of outlet-level healthy food and beverage accreditation schemes: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023
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  4. Consumer willingness to pay for healthier food products: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023
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  5. Co-creation of healthier food retail environments: A systematic review to explore the type of stakeholders and their motivations and stage of engagement.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022
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  8. A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations of Health-Promoting Food Retail-Based Interventions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  9. Improving Consumption and Purchases of Healthier Foods in Retail Environments: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Catherine L MahSchool of Health Administration, Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, 5850 College Street, 2nd Floor, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada. catherine.mah@dal.ca.
Gabriella LuongoDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, 5th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5T 3M7, Canada.
Rebecca HasdellSchool of Health Administration, Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, 5850 College Street, 2nd Floor, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Nathan G A TaylorSchool of Health Administration, Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, 5850 College Street, 2nd Floor, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Brian K LoDivision of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, 417 Savage Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA.
Dalhousie University · CACornell University · USUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

CIHR KAL 139697
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewUpdate the state of evidence on the effectiveness of retail food environment interventions in influencing diet and explore the underlying role of public policy, through a systematic review of population-level interventions to promote health in the retail food environment, including community and consumer environments. Diet-related outcomes included purchasing, dietary intakes, diet quality, and health including weight. We coded studies for enabling public policy levers underpinning the intervention, using two widely used conceptual frameworks. RECENT

findingsOf 86 articles (1974-2018), the majority (58 articles, 67%) showed at least one positive effect on diet. Thirteen articles (15%) discussed natural experiments, 27 articles (31%) used a design involving comparison groups including 23 articles (27%) specifically describing randomized controlled trials, and 46 (53%) were quasi-experimental (cross-sectional) evaluations. Across the "4Ps" of marketing (product, promotion, placement, and price), promotion comprised the greatest proportion of intervention strategies, especially in earlier literature (pre-2008). Few studies combined geographic access interventions with 4P strategies, and few used robust dietary intake assessments. Behavior change communication remains an intervention mainstay, but recent work has also incorporated environmental and social planning, and fiscal strategies. More recent interventions were multi-component. The retail food environment intervention literature continues to grow and has become more robust overall, with clearer evidence of the effect of interventions on diet-related outcomes, including consumer purchasing, dietary intakes, and health. There is still much scope for development in the field. Attention to enabling public policy could help to strengthen intervention implementation and evaluation in the retail food environment.

Indexed as

DietEnvironmentFoodHealth PromotionMarketingPublic PolicyBody WeightCommerceConsumer BehaviorDatabases, FactualFeeding BehaviorHumansPublic HealthCommunity food environmentConsumer food environmentConsumer purchasingDietHealth behaviorInterventionNoncommunicable diseasesPolicy contextPublic policyRetail food environmentReview

Identifiers

PMID31797233
PMCPMC6904419
OpenAlexW2992886686

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