Resource Library

Healthy public food procurement

Food Service Guidelines for Federal Facilities (2017)

US Department of Health and Human Services

Effect of changes to the school food environment on eating behaviours and/or body weight in children: a systematic review

Driessen CE, et al. Obes Rev. 2014

Eating well for under-5s in child care: Practical and nutritional guidelines

The Caroline Walker Trust, United Kingdom

Eating Well in Government Venues website

ChangeLab Solutions, United States

Enablers and barriers to implementation of and compliance with school-based healthy food and beverage policies: a systematic literature review and meta-synthesis

Ronto et al. Public Health Nutr. 2020

Food and Nutrition Policy for Schools: A Tool for the Development of School Nutrition Programmes in the European Region (2006)

World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Healthier Food Choices for Public Places website

Center for Science in the Public Interest, United States
A CSPI resource offering messaging tips, model policies, and implementation tools for improving food and beverage options in vending machines, cafeterias, concession stands, and events.

The Power of Procurement

de Schutter O. United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Briefing Note. 2014.

CDC’s Sodium Reduction in Communities Program: Evaluating Differential Effects in Food Service Settings, 2013–2016

Jordan et al. Prv Chronic Dis. 2020.

City of Philadelphia Nutrition Standards website

Philadelphia Department of Health, United States

Population-level interventions in government jurisdictions for dietary sodium reduction: a Cochrane Review

BARBERIO AM ET AL. INT J EPIDEMIOL. 2017.

Healthy school meals and educational outcomes

BELOT M, JAMES J. JOUR HEALTH ECON. 2011
A 2011 study finding that shifting UK school meals from processed to healthier options significantly improved educational outcomes in English and Science, and reduced illness-related absences by 14%.

CDC Healthy Food Environments website

US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control

Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

At the crossroads: new paradigms of food security, public health nutrition and school food

ASHE LM, SONNINO R. PUB HEALTH NUTR. 2012.

Audits and Inspections Toolkit (2011)

SCHOOL FOOD TRUST, UNITED KINGDOM
A checklist developed by the School Food Trust to help schools and catering providers demonstrate compliance with school food standards.

A review of food procurement and provision in hospitals and schools in Sri Lanka

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. COUNTRY OFFICE FOR SRI LANKA.

Uruguayan Schools Slowly Say Goodbye to Junk Food.

ACOSTA I. TIERRAMERICA. 2012 OCT 10.

ACT Public School Food and Drink Policy

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT) GOVERNMENT

WHO Sodium Country Score Card

World Health Organization

Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet

World Health Organization

Reducing cardiovascular disease through salt reduction

Resolve to Save Lives
RTSL’s best interventions for saving lives with sodium reduction.

Annotated bibliography: sodium reduction

Resolve to Save Lives

Quezon City’s healthy public food procurement policy: a model for the Philippines and beyond

WHO global report on sodium intake reduction

World Health Organization

Massive efforts needed to reduce salt intake and protect lives

Call for healthy food procurement proposals!