Creating and supporting a healthy food environment for type 2 diabetes prevention
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Pilot test of the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) to increase government actions for creating healthy food environments
OBJECTIVES Effective government policies are essential to increase the healthiness of food environments. The International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS) has developed a monitoring tool (the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI)) and process to rate government policies to create healthy food environment...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Planetary Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2542-5196
DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(18)30211-0