Assessment of evaluations made to healthy eating policies in Europe: a review within the EATWELL Project

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Author	Pérez-Cueto, Federico Ja Aschemann-Witzel, Jessica Shankar, Bhavani Brambila-Macias, José Bech-Larsen, Tino Mazzocchi, Mario Capacci, Sara Saba, Anna Turrini, Aida Niedzwiedzka, Barbara Piorecka, Beata Kozioł-Kozakowska, Agniezska Wills, Josephine Traill, W. Bruce Verbeke, Wim
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Objective: To identify and assess healthy eating policies at national level which have been evaluated in terms of their impact on awareness of healthy eating, food consumption, health outcome or cost/benefit.Design: Review of policy documents and their evaluations when available.Setting: European Member States.Subjects: One hundred and twenty-one policy documents revised, 107 retained.Results: Of the 107 selected interventions, twenty-two had been evaluated for their impact on awareness or knowledge and twenty-seven for their impact on consumption. Furthermore sixteen interventions provided an evaluation of health impact, while three actions specifically measured any cost/benefit ratio. The indicators used in these evaluations were in most cases not comparable. Evaluation was more often found for public information campaigns, regulation of meals at schools/canteens and nutrition education programmes.Conclusions: The study highlights the need not only to develop harmonized and verifiable procedures but also indicators for measuring effectiveness and success and for comparing between interventions and countries. EU policies are recommended to provide a set of indicators that may be measured consistently and regularly in all countries. Furthermore, public information campaigns should be accompanied by other interventions, as evaluations may show an impact on awareness and intention, but rarely on consumption patterns and health outcome.
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Ending Page	1496
Page Count	8
Starting Page	1489
ISSN	13689800
e-ISSN	14752727
DOI	10.1017/s1368980011003107
Journal	Public Health Nutrition
Issue Number	8
Volume Number	15
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2011-11-29
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Public Health Nutrition Eatwell Project Food and Nutrition Policy Healthy Eating
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nutrition and Dietetics Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health