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Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environment Policy Index
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
Government action is essential to increase the healthiness of food environments
and reduce obesity, diet-related non-communicable diseases
(NCDs), and their related inequalities. This paper proposes a monitoring
framework ...
INFORMAS (International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support): overview and key principles
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) dominate disease burdens globally
and poor nutrition increasingly contributes to this global burden. Comprehensive
monitoring of food environments, and evaluation of the impact
of public ...
A proposed approach to monitor private-sector policies and practices related to food environments, obesity and non-communicable disease prevention
(Wiley, 2013)
Private-sector organizations play a critical role in shaping the food environments
of individuals and populations. However, there is currently
very limited independent monitoring of private-sector actions related to
food ...
Are intentions to change, policy awareness, or health knowledge related to changes in dietary intake following a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in South Africa? A before-and after study
(BMC, 2022)
Background In April 2018, South Africa implemented the Health Promotion Levy (HPL), one of the first sugarsweetened
beverage (SSB) taxes to be based on each gram of sugar (beyond 4 g/100mL). The objectives of this
study ...