Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment
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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: Topics in Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0883-5691
DOI: 10.1097/tin.0b013e31828d7be5