ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Associations between Governmental Policies to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Supermarket Purchases and Individual, Retailer, and Community Health Outcomes: An Integrative Review.
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- Perspective: Nutrition Health Disparities Framework: A Model to Advance Health Equity.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- The association between the food environment and adherence to healthy diet quality: the Maastricht Study.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Promoting health in the digital environment: health policy experts' responses to on-demand delivery in Aotearoa New Zealand.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- Impact of a financial incentive scheme on purchase of fruits and vegetables from unorganised retailers in rural India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2023Article
- The Health and Economic Impact of Using a Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax to Fund Fruit and Vegetable Subsidies in New York City: A Modeling Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Article
- Grocery Purchase Changes Were Associated With A North Carolina COVID-19 Food Assistance Incentive Program.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2022Article
- Advancing Health Equity Efforts to Reduce Obesity: Changing the Course.Annual review of nutrition · 2022Review
- Associations Among Select State Policies and the Nutritional Quality of Household Packaged Food Purchases in the United States from 2008 Through 2017.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2022Observational
- Large-scale diet tracking data reveal disparate associations between food environment and diet.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Online Pilot Grocery Intervention among Rural and Urban Residents Aimed to Improve Purchasing Habits.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Support policies that foster a healthy food environment and incentivize healthy food purchases to mitigate cancer inequities.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- Applying a Multi-Dimensional Digital Food and Nutrition Literacy Model to Inform Research and Policies to Enable Adults in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to Make Healthy Purchases in the Online Food Retail Ecosystem.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Contributions of Food Environments to Dietary Quality and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2021Review
- The Retail Food Environment: Time for a Change.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Developing a National Research Agenda to Support Healthy Food Retail.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Supermarkets are natural and important settings for implementing environmental interventions to improve healthy eating, and governmental policies could help improve the nutritional quality of purchases in this setting. This review aimed to: (1) identify governmental policies in the United States (U.S.), including regulatory and legislative actions of federal, tribal, state, and local governments, designed to promote healthy choices in supermarkets; and (2) synthesize evidence of these policies' effects on retailers, consumers, and community health. We searched five policy databases and developed a list of seven policy actions that meet our inclusion criteria: calorie labeling of prepared foods in supermarkets; increasing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits; financial incentives for the purchase of fruit and vegetables; sweetened beverage taxes; revisions to the USDA Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food package; financial assistance for supermarkets to open in underserved areas; and allowing online purchases with SNAP. We searched PubMed, Econlit, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Business Source Ultimate to identify peer-reviewed, academic, English-language literature published at any time until January 2020; 147 studies were included in the review. Sweetened beverage taxes, revisions to the WIC food package, and financial incentives for fruits and vegetables were associated with improvements in dietary behaviors (food purchases and/or consumption). Providing financial incentives to supermarkets to open in underserved areas and increases in SNAP benefits were not associated with changes in food purchasing or diet quality but may improve food security. More research is needed to understand the effects of calorie labeling in supermarkets and online SNAP purchasing.
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