Creating healthy food environments through global benchmarking of government nutrition policies and food industry practices Vandevijvere, Stefanie and Swinburn, Boyd 2014, Creating healthy food environments through global benchmarking of government nutrition policies and food industry practices, Archives of public health, vol. 72, no. 7, pp. 1-3, doi: 10.1186/2049-3258-72-7. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads swinburn-creatinghealthy-2014.pdf Published version application/pdf 313.61KB 177 Title Creating healthy food environments through global benchmarking of government nutrition policies and food industry practices Alternative title Commentary : Creating healthy food environments through global benchmarking of government nutrition policies and food industry practices Author(s) Vandevijvere, Stefanie Swinburn, Boyd Journal name Archives of public health Volume number 72 Issue number 7 Start page 1 End page 3 Total pages 3 Publisher Institut Scientifique de Sante Publique Place of publication Brussels, Belgium Publication date 2014 ISSN 2049-3258 Keyword(s) healthy foods healthy food policies international benchmarks obesity diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Summary Unhealthy processed food products are increasingly dominating over healthy foods, making food and nutrition environments unhealthier. Development and implementation of strong government healthy food policies is currently being circumvented in many countries by powerful food industry lobbying. In order to increase accountability of both governments and the private sector for their actions, and improve the healthiness of food environments, INFORMAS (the International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Research, Monitoring and Action Support) has recently been founded to systematically and comprehensively monitor food environments and policies in countries of varying size and income. This will enable INFORMAS to rank both governments and private sector companies globally according to their actions on food environments. Identification of those countries which have the healthiest food and nutrition policies and using them as international benchmarks against which national progress towards best practice can be assessed, should support reductions in global obesity and diet-related NCDs. Language eng DOI 10.1186/2049-3258-72-7 Field of Research 111104 Public Nutrition Intervention Socio Economic Objective 920205 Health Education and Promotion HERDC Research category C2 Other contribution to refereed journal Copyright notice ©2014, Institut Scientifique de Sante Publique Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30064533 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health Population Health Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Link to Related Work Creating healthy food environments through global benchmarking of government nutrition policies and food industry practices (deposited 25-05-2022) Institut Scientifique de Santé Publique Publisher (deposited 03-10-2014)   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 18 Jun 2014, 10:13:31 EST Wed, 18 Jun 2014, 15:34:07 EST Thu, 19 Jun 2014, 10:33:52 EST Thu, 19 Jun 2014, 10:35:13 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 15:07:52 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 07:13:33 EST Sat, 15 Apr 2017, 02:45:35 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2017, 06:07:37 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:11:27 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 5 times in TR Web of Science Cited 5 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 155 Abstract Views, 177 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 18 Jun 2014, 10:13:17 EST by Penny Andrews