Pilot test of the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) to increase government actions for creating healthy food environments

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Vandevijvere, Stefanie ^a   Swinburn, Boyd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT POLICY INDEX FOOD; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; PILOT STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES;

FOOD INDUSTRY; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NEW ZEALAND; NUTRITION POLICY; OBESITY; PILOT PROJECTS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84920747284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006194     Document Type: Article

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