Challenges And Lessons Learned From Communities Using Evidence To Adopt Strategies To Improve Healthy Food Environments
Equity Focus
This study targets research on communities that have worked to implement evidence-based strategies to improve access to a healthy food environment.
Case Summary
This project examine how prize-winning communities worked in a multidisciplinary collective manner to implement evidence-based strategies, deployed suites of strategies to expand the reach of food-related work, balanced evidence against innovation, and measured their own progress. Most of the communities also faced challenges in using evidence effectively to implement strategies to promote healthy food environments.
Lessons Learned
- Policy makers can accelerate the adoption of evidence-informed approaches related to food and health by embedding them in program standards and funding requirements. Establishing opportunities for ongoing training to enhance community practitioners' evaluation skills
and collaborative leadership would also improve the effectiveness of community implementation of these strategies
KEY FACTS
Country
United States
WHO region
Americas
Country income level
HIC
Action Area
Community food environment intervention
Step
Engage & Transform
Authors
J. A. Willems Van Dijk; B. Catlin; A. Cofsky; C. Carroll
Year published
2015
Search results for Framework: Engage: 11
Food environment intervention improves food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits in primary school children: Project Daire, a randomised-controlled, factorial design cluster trial
NORTHERN IRELAND
Increasing knowledge of food deserts in Brazil: The contributions of an interactive and digital mosaic produced in the context of an integrated education for sustainability program
BRAZIL
A food environments feedback system (FoodBack) for empowering citizens and change agents to create healthier community food places
NEW ZEALAND
If you Build it with them, they will come": What makes a supermarket intervention successful in a food desert?"
UNITED STATES
Changing household dietary behaviours through community-based networks: A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Kerala, India
INDIA
Leveraging Citizen Science for Healthier Food Environments: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Corner Stores in Camden, New Jersey
UNITED STATES
FEAST: Utilization of a technology-driven approach to empower citizen scientists to advocate for healthy food environments
UNITED STATES
The role of a food policy coalition in influencing a local food environment: an Australian case study
AUSTRALIA
Developing and Implementing Waupaca Eating Smart": A Restaurant and Supermarket Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Through Changes in the Food Environment"
UNITED STATES
Mobilizing Young People in Community Efforts to Improve the Food Environment: Corner Store Conversions in East Los Angeles
UNITED STATES
Challenges And Lessons Learned From Communities Using Evidence To Adopt Strategies To Improve Healthy Food Environments
UNITED STATES