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The impact of interventions to promote healthier ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets open to the general public: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Ready-to-eat meals sold by food outlets that are accessible to the general public are an important target for public health intervention. We conducted a systematic review to assess the impact of such interventions.

Methods

Studies of any design and duration that included any consumer-level or food-outlet-level before-and-after data were included.

Results

Thirty studies describing 34 interventions were categorized by type and coded against the Nuffield intervention ladder: restrict choice?=?trans fat law (n?=?1), changing pre-packed children's meal content (n?=?1) and food outlet award schemes (n?=?2); guide choice?=?price increases for unhealthier choices (n?=?1), incentive (contingent reward) (n?=?1) and price decreases for healthier choices (n?=?2); enable choice?=?signposting (highlighting healthier/unhealthier options) (n?=?10) and telemarketing (offering support for the provision of healthier options to businesses via telephone) (n?=?2); and provide information?=?calorie labelling law (n?=?12), voluntary nutrient labelling (n?=?1) and personalized receipts (n?=?1). Most interventions were aimed at adults in US fast food chains and assessed customer-level outcomes. More 'intrusive' interventions that restricted or guided choice generally showed a positive impact on food-outlet-level and customer-level outcomes. However, interventions that simply provided information or enabled choice had a negligible impact.

Conclusion

Interventions to promote healthier ready-to-eat meals sold by food outlets should restrict choice or guide choice through incentives/disincentives. Public health policies and practice that simply involve providing information are unlikely to be effective.

SUBMITTER: Hillier-Brown FC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5244662 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The impact of interventions to promote healthier ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets open to the general public: a systematic review.

Hillier-Brown F C FC Summerbell C D CD Moore H J HJ Routen A A Lake A A AA Adams J J White M M Araujo-Soares V V Abraham C C Adamson A J AJ Brown T J TJ

Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 20161129 2

<h4>Introduction</h4>Ready-to-eat meals sold by food outlets that are accessible to the general public are an important target for public health intervention. We conducted a systematic review to assess the impact of such interventions.<h4>Methods</h4>Studies of any design and duration that included any consumer-level or food-outlet-level before-and-after data were included.<h4>Results</h4>Thirty studies describing 34 interventions were categorized by type and coded against the Nuffield intervent ...[more]

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The impact of interventions to promote healthier ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets open to the general public: a systematic review.

Introduction

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Publications

The impact of interventions to promote healthier ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets open to the general public: a systematic review.

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