Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments: A proposed government healthy food environment policy index

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue S1, 2013, Pages 24-37

  Swinburn, B ^a,b   Vandevijvere, S ^a   Kraak, V ^b   Sacks, G ^b   Snowdon, W ^b,c   Hawkes, C ^d   Barquera, S ^e   Friel, S ^f   Kelly, B ^g   Kumanyika, S ^h   L'Abbe M ⁱ   Lee, A ^j   Lobstein, T ^k,l   Ma, J ^m   Macmullan, J ⁿ   Mohan, S ^o   Monteiro, C ^p   Neal, B ^q   Rayner, M ^r   Sanders, D ^s   Walker, C ^t   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Pacific Research Centre for the Prevention of Obesity and Non Communicable Diseases   (Fiji)

^d WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^f The Australian National University   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^k International Association for the Study of Obesity   (United Kingdom)

^l CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^m CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

ⁿ Intl Assoc of Consum Food Org   (United Kingdom)

^o PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^p UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^t GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Government policies; INFORMAS; Non communicable diseases; Obesity prevention

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD PROCESSING; GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH FOOD; MONITORING; OBESITY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW;

GOVERNMENT POLICIES; INFORMAS; NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; OBESITY PREVENTION;

BENCHMARKING; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SERVICES; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; NUTRITION POLICY; OBESITY; POLICY MAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84885090559     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/obr.12073     Document Type: Review

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