This study develops a systems-based approach to empower citizens to take action and bring about change to create a healthier food environment.
This study developed a systems-based approach (called FoodBack) to empower citizens and change agents to create healthier community food places. Formative evaluations were held with citizens and change agents in six diverse New Zealand communities, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with 85 change agents in Auckland and Hamilton in 2015-2016. The emerging system was additionally reviewed by public health experts from diverse organizations. A food environments feedback system was constructed to crowdsource key indicators of the healthiness of diverse community food places (i.e. schools, hospitals, supermarkets, fast food outlets, sport centers) and outdoor spaces (i.e. around schools), comments/pictures about barriers and facilitators to healthy eating and exemplar stories on improving the healthiness of food environments. All the information collected is centrally processed and translated into 'short' (immediate) and 'long' (after analyses) feedback loops to stimulate actions to create healthier food places.
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A food environments feedback system (FoodBack) for empowering citizens and change agents to create healthier community food places
Measuring and stimulating progress on implementing widely recommended food environment policies: the New Zealand case study
Food swamps by area socioeconomic deprivation in New Zealand: a national study
The healthy food environment policy index: findings of an expert panel in New Zealand