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: Transform: 12
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
Child-centered food systems: reorienting food systems towards healthy diets for children
GLOBAL
Advancing healthy and sustainable food environments: The Flathead Reservation case study
UNITED STATES
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
Partnering with carryouts: implementation of a food environment intervention targeting youth obesity
UNITED STATES
Changes in School Competitive Food Environments after a Health Promotion Campaign
UNITED STATES
Changing the restaurant food environment to improve cardiovascular health in a rural community: implementation and evaluation of the Heart of New Ulm restaurant programme
UNITED STATES
Can the introduction of a full-service supermarket in a food desert improve residents' economic status and health?
UNITED STATES
Developing and Implementing Waupaca Eating Smart": A Restaurant and Supermarket Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Through Changes in the Food Environment"
UNITED STATES
An Intervention To Enhance the Food Environment in Public Recreation and Sport Settings: A Natural Experiment in British Columbia, Canada
CANADA
Challenges And Lessons Learned From Communities Using Evidence To Adopt Strategies To Improve Healthy Food Environments
UNITED STATES