TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations between governmental policies to improve the nutritional quality of supermarket purchases and individual, retailer, and community health outcomes
T2 - An integrative review
AU - Moran, Alyssa J.
AU - Gu, Yuxuan
AU - Clynes, Sasha
AU - Goheer, Attia
AU - Roberto, Christina A.
AU - Palmer, Anne
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was supported by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. Publication fees were supported by Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors.
PY - 2020/10/2
Y1 - 2020/10/2
N2 - Supermarkets are natural and important settings for implementing environmental interventions to improve healthy eating, and governmental policies could help improve the nutritional quality of purchases in this setting. This review aimed to: (1) identify governmental policies in the United States (U.S.), including regulatory and legislative actions of federal, tribal, state, and local governments, designed to promote healthy choices in supermarkets; and (2) synthesize evidence of these policies’ effects on retailers, consumers, and community health. We searched five policy databases and developed a list of seven policy actions that meet our inclusion criteria: calorie labeling of prepared foods in supermarkets; increasing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits; financial incentives for the purchase of fruit and vegetables; sweetened beverage taxes; revisions to the USDA Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food package; financial assistance for supermarkets to open in underserved areas; and allowing online purchases with SNAP. We searched PubMed, Econlit, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Business Source Ultimate to identify peer-reviewed, academic, English-language literature published at any time until January 2020; 147 studies were included in the review. Sweetened beverage taxes, revisions to the WIC food package, and financial incentives for fruits and vegetables were associated with improvements in dietary behaviors (food purchases and/or consumption). Providing financial incentives to supermarkets to open in underserved areas and increases in SNAP benefits were not associated with changes in food purchasing or diet quality but may improve food security. More research is needed to understand the effects of calorie labeling in supermarkets and online SNAP purchasing.
AB - Supermarkets are natural and important settings for implementing environmental interventions to improve healthy eating, and governmental policies could help improve the nutritional quality of purchases in this setting. This review aimed to: (1) identify governmental policies in the United States (U.S.), including regulatory and legislative actions of federal, tribal, state, and local governments, designed to promote healthy choices in supermarkets; and (2) synthesize evidence of these policies’ effects on retailers, consumers, and community health. We searched five policy databases and developed a list of seven policy actions that meet our inclusion criteria: calorie labeling of prepared foods in supermarkets; increasing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits; financial incentives for the purchase of fruit and vegetables; sweetened beverage taxes; revisions to the USDA Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food package; financial assistance for supermarkets to open in underserved areas; and allowing online purchases with SNAP. We searched PubMed, Econlit, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Business Source Ultimate to identify peer-reviewed, academic, English-language literature published at any time until January 2020; 147 studies were included in the review. Sweetened beverage taxes, revisions to the WIC food package, and financial incentives for fruits and vegetables were associated with improvements in dietary behaviors (food purchases and/or consumption). Providing financial incentives to supermarkets to open in underserved areas and increases in SNAP benefits were not associated with changes in food purchasing or diet quality but may improve food security. More research is needed to understand the effects of calorie labeling in supermarkets and online SNAP purchasing.
KW - Beverage tax
KW - Federal nutrition assistance programs
KW - Financial incentives
KW - Food and beverage
KW - Food purchase
KW - Grocery
KW - Health disparities
KW - Menu labeling
KW - Policy
KW - Retail food environment
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph17207493
DO - 10.3390/ijerph17207493
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33076280
AN - SCOPUS:85092923815
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 23
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
JF - International journal of environmental research and public health
IS - 20
M1 - 7493
ER -