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ReviewCurrent obesity reports2026

Prioritising Indicators for Large-scale Monitoring and Assessment of Food Environments for Public Health.

Lana Vanderlee, Kelly Garton, Mavra Ahmed, Kathryn Backholer, Carolina Batis, Marie A Bragg, Emma Boyland, Adrian J Cameron, Luciana Castronuovo, Elizabeth K Dunford and 17 more

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Review in Current obesity reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Lana VanderleeSchool of Nutrition and Centre NUTRISS, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada. lana.vanderlee@fsaa.ulaval.ca.
Kelly GartonFaculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Mavra AhmedDepartment of Nutritional Sciences and Joannah and Brian Lawson, Centre for Child Nutrition, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Kathryn BackholerInstitute for Health Transformation, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Carolina BatisCenter for Nutrition and Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Marie A BraggDepartment of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Emma BoylandDepartment of Psychology, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Adrian J CameronInstitute for Health Transformation, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Luciana CastronuovoFundación Interamericana del Corazón (FIC), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Elizabeth K DunfordGillings Global School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Clara Gómez-DonosoInstitute for Health Transformation, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Guanlan HuDepartment of Nutritional Sciences and Joannah and Brian Lawson, Centre for Child Nutrition, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Alexandra JonesThe George Institute for Global Health, Food Policy Division, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Bridget KellyFaculty of Science, Medicine and Health, School of Medical, Indigenous and Health Sciences Wollongong, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
Amos LaarSchool of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
Meron LewisFaculty of Medicine, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Christiam Méndez-LazarteUniversidad de Lima, Instituto de Investigación Científica PE, Lima, Peru.
Sally MackayFaculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Christina M PollardFaculty of Health Sciences, Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, enABLE Institute for Health Science and Curtin Medical Research Institute Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Erica ReeveInstitute for Health Transformation, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Sally SchultzInstitute for Health Transformation, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Tailane ScapinInstitute for Health Transformation, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Suzanne Soares-WynterCaribbean Institute for Health Research, Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Rina SwartDepartment of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
Boyd SwinburnFaculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Caroline VaillancourtSchool of Nutrition and Centre NUTRISS, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
Gary SacksInstitute for Health Transformation, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. gary.sacks@deakin.edu.au.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis study aimed to prioritise key indicators for monitoring and assessing the healthiness of food environments, including at the country level. We conducted a literature review and engaged a consortium of researchers from the International Network for Food environments Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS) as part of a prioritisation process. RECENT

findingsWe identified 375 existing indicators that had been used to measure food environments. Researchers were consulted on priorities and implementation considerations through a series of interviews, focus groups and an online survey. Sixteen indicators were short-listed for prioritisation, and five indicators were identified as key priorities: proportion of packaged food and drinks products classified as unhealthy; frequency of exposure to unhealthy food promotion; price of a healthy diet and the price of the current diet as a proportion of income; proportion of schools in which unhealthy foods are provided or available for sale regularly; and application of back of package and front of package food labelling. This study lays the groundwork for standardised and scalable food environment monitoring that can drive policy action to support healthier food environments globally. Future areas for inquiry include tools to classify healthy foods and outlets, which could be adapted across policy areas, and the establishment of evidence-informed benchmarks for assessment of each indicator.

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Diet, HealthyFood SupplyHealth PromotionNutrition PolicyPublic HealthFood LabelingHumansFood environment monitoringFood environmentsFood policyIndicator frameworkNutrition policy

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