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

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2021

Food environment intervention improves food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits in primary school children: Project Daire, a randomised-controlled, factorial design cluster trial

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NORTHERN IRELAND
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2020

Child-centered food systems: reorienting food systems towards healthy diets for children

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GLOBAL
CASE STUDY
2019

Advancing healthy and sustainable food environments: The Flathead Reservation case study

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UNITED STATES
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2019

If you Build it with them, they will come": What makes a supermarket intervention successful in a food desert?"

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UNITED STATES
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2018

Changing household dietary behaviours through community-based networks: A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Kerala, India

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INDIA
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2018

Partnering with carryouts: implementation of a food environment intervention targeting youth obesity

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2018

Changes in School Competitive Food Environments after a Health Promotion Campaign

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UNITED STATES
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2018

Changing the restaurant food environment to improve cardiovascular health in a rural community: implementation and evaluation of the Heart of New Ulm restaurant programme

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UNITED STATES
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2017

Can the introduction of a full-service supermarket in a food desert improve residents' economic status and health?

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UNITED STATES
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2016

Developing and Implementing Waupaca Eating Smart": A Restaurant and Supermarket Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Through Changes in the Food Environment"

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2015

An Intervention To Enhance the Food Environment in Public Recreation and Sport Settings: A Natural Experiment in British Columbia, Canada

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CANADA
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2015

Challenges And Lessons Learned From Communities Using Evidence To Adopt Strategies To Improve Healthy Food Environments

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UNITED STATES