[EQ] Knowledge Synthesis - Public Policies on Nutrition Labelling: Effects and Implementation Issues

Public Policies on Nutrition Labelling: Effects and Implementation Issues

A Knowledge Synthesis

National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy - NCCHPP– Canada, 2011

Institut national de santé publique du Québec

Available online PDF [111p.] at: http://t.co/MPUvK2s

"………..Following a brief discussion of the targeted problem, namely, obesity in Canada, this document defines the subject of the present knowledge synthesis: nutrition labelling, whose effectiveness we attempt to document, along with its unintended effects, equity, cost, feasibility and acceptability.

 

Next follows a description of the method used to study public policies on nutrition labelling: explication of their logic model; review of the scientific and grey literatures; and organization of deliberative processes that bring together Canadian actors involved in addressing obesity.

 

This document next describes the logic model for nutrition labelling. It then synthesizes the data gathered from the literature on the status of nutrition-labelling policies in industrialized countries, on the effectiveness of nutrition labelling, and on its unintended effects, equity, cost, feasibility and acceptability. Then, the data on these same topics gathered through deliberative processes are presented.

 

The document concludes with a summary of the key points to note regarding the effects and implementation of public policies on nutrition labelling….."

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1􀀃 INTRODUCTION: OBESITY IN CANADA

2􀀃 SUBJECT OF THE KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS: PUBLIC POLICIES ON NUTRITION LABELLING

3􀀃 METHOD

3.1􀀃 Explication of the intervention logic of nutrition labelling

3.2􀀃 Literature review

3.2.1􀀃 Documentary search:

3.2.2􀀃 Appraisal of the quality of data

3.2.3􀀃 Data perusal and extraction

3.2.4􀀃 Synthesis of data drawn from the literature

3.3􀀃 Deliberative processes

4􀀃 INTERVENTION LOGIC OF NUTRITION LABELLING

5􀀃 SYNTHESIS OF DATA DRAWN FROM THE LITERATURE

5.1􀀃 Status of nutrition-labelling policies in industrialized countries

5.1.1􀀃 Canada

5.1.2􀀃 United States

5.1.3􀀃 Europe

5.1.4􀀃 Australia and New Zealand

5.2􀀃 Effectiveness

5.2.1􀀃 Plausibility of the intervention logic

5.2.2􀀃 Intermediate effects

5.2.2.1 Effectiveness for modifying consumers' level of information: Visibility, reading and comprehension of nutrition information

5.2.2.2 Effectiveness at influencing purchasing and consumption

5.2.3􀀃 Effectiveness as a means of affecting the targeted problem: obesity

5.2.4􀀃 Impact of context on the policy's effectiveness

5.3􀀃 Unintended effects

5.4􀀃 Equity: Differential effects on various population groups

5.4.1􀀃 Gender

5.4.2􀀃 Age

5.4.3􀀃 Familial status

5.4.4􀀃 Education level

5.4.5􀀃 Socio-economic status

5.4.6􀀃 Ethnic minorities

5.4.7􀀃 Knowledge about nutrition

5.4.8􀀃 Eating habits

5.4.9􀀃 Body type

5.5􀀃 Cost

5.6􀀃 Feasibility

5.7􀀃 Acceptability

5.7.1􀀃 Position of consumers

5.7.2􀀃 Position of the food industry

5.7.3􀀃 Position of associations and public actors

6􀀃 SYNTHESIS OF DATA GATHERED DURING DELIBERATIVE PROCESSES

7􀀃 CONCLUSION

7.1􀀃 Key points to note

7.2􀀃 How can you make use of this knowledge synthesis in your own decisionmaking context?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX 1 WEBSITES EXPLORED

APPENDIX 2 SUBDIVISIONS OF EXTRACTION TABLES

APPENDIX 3 EXAMPLES OF NUTRITION LABELLING FORMATS

 

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