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Three Healthy Stores Projects

Topics

 Changing the food environment

 Marshall Islands Healthy Stores: dealing with dietary transition

 Apache Healthy Stores: sustaining a successful program

 Baltimore Healthy Stores: working in an urban setting

 Future directions

Why Change the Food Environment?

 To modify the context within which illness-producing behaviors are

made

 Enhanced sustainability

 To complement individual behavior change programs

 To reach a large number of people

 The only practical way of addressing the obesity epidemic on a large

scale (Economos and Irish-Hauser, 2007)

How to Change the Food Environment

 Change access to food

Increase availability of healthy food options over less healthy

food options

Change prices on healthier or less healthy foods (or provide

coupons)

Increase/reduce production of certain foods

Change distribution of foods (e.g., to local retailers)

Overcome other physical barriers

 Modify physical location of foods

 “Behind-Plexiglas” corner stores

Food Store Intervention Trials: Limitations

 Little or no formative research

 Little emphasis on participatory approaches

 Limited use of theoretical frameworks

Sources: Seymour et al. (2004); Glanz et al. (1995); Wechsler et al. (2000); French and Stables. (2005).

Food Store Intervention Trials: Limitations

 Little process evaluation

 Few have worked in small stores

 Few intervention strategies, with limited reinforcement/integration

of activities

Sources: Seymour et al. (2004); Glanz et al. (1995); Wechsler et al. (2000); French and Stables. (2005).