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

• Published in: Obesity reviews Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 227 - 246
• Main Authors: Hillier‐Brown, F. C., Summerbell, C. D., Moore, H. J., Routen, A., Lake, A. A., Adams, J., White, M., Araujo‐Soares, V., Abraham, C., Adamson, A. J., Brown, T. J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.02.2017; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: adults; business enterprises; children; Choice Behavior; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Diet; Diet, Healthy; Fast food; Fast Foods; food chain; food environments; Food Preferences; Health policy; Health Promotion; Humans; Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; prices; Public Health; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; ready-to-eat foods; ready‐to‐eat meals; Restaurants; systematic review; takeaways; telephones; trans fatty acids; United States; United States; restaurants; takeaways; ready-to-eat meals; food environments; Diet; systematic review

Summary 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 con...