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Designing comprehensive and politically feasible food environment policy: the promise of packaging

Policy packaging has been identified as a promising approach to increase public support for effective and comprehensive policymaking by bundling measures that are unpopular from a behavioral and/or fiscal perspective with those that are popular; however, this potential has yet to be examined for imp...

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Autores principales: Wahnschafft, S, Spiller, A, Lemken, D, von Philipsborn, P
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10595098/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1648
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description Policy packaging has been identified as a promising approach to increase public support for effective and comprehensive policymaking by bundling measures that are unpopular from a behavioral and/or fiscal perspective with those that are popular; however, this potential has yet to be examined for improving food environments to promote healthy diets. We examine public preferences for a policy packaging approach amongst eligible voters in Germany (N. 1,200), as well as which policy design and voter characteristics underpin said preferences, via a survey-embedded conjoint experiment. Policy package attributes are drawn from recommended measures for improving food environments in Germany based on the INFORMAS Food-EPI assessment. We examine three inclinations towards policy packaging: those who are (1) resistant, (2) inclined, but sensitive to the design, and (3) enthusiastic, irrespective of design. We use linear and logistic regression models to examine the effect of policy design attributes and voter characteristics on policy package support inclinations. Most voters (73%) were inclined towards policy packaging, but sensitive to package design. We found that ‘costly’ measures - I.e., those that restricted or disincentivized unhealthy behaviors - were generally less popular than ‘compensatory’ ones - I.e., those that enabled or incentivized healthy behaviors - in policy packages; however, most participants preferred some combination of both. Participant beliefs regarding the topic of food environment policymaking predicted packaging preferences more so than any socio-demographic, political, or health characteristic. Packaging policy measures together, particularly those with counteracting effects across behavioral and fiscal axes, allows for more comprehensive and politically feasible policymaking to improve food environments. Enhancing science communication on environmental drivers of food choices is vital to bolster support for food environment policy packages. . KEY MESSAGES: • There is an appetite amongst voters for improving food environments that extends beyond the adoption of single measures, and rather towards a policy packaging approach. • Communication that fosters a paradigm shift towards acknowledging environmental influences on diet and health would be vital for fostering support for comprehensive food environment policy packages.
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spelling pubmed-105950982023-10-25 Designing comprehensive and politically feasible food environment policy: the promise of packaging Wahnschafft, S Spiller, A Lemken, D von Philipsborn, P Eur J Public Health Poster Displays Policy packaging has been identified as a promising approach to increase public support for effective and comprehensive policymaking by bundling measures that are unpopular from a behavioral and/or fiscal perspective with those that are popular; however, this potential has yet to be examined for improving food environments to promote healthy diets. We examine public preferences for a policy packaging approach amongst eligible voters in Germany (N. 1,200), as well as which policy design and voter characteristics underpin said preferences, via a survey-embedded conjoint experiment. Policy package attributes are drawn from recommended measures for improving food environments in Germany based on the INFORMAS Food-EPI assessment. We examine three inclinations towards policy packaging: those who are (1) resistant, (2) inclined, but sensitive to the design, and (3) enthusiastic, irrespective of design. We use linear and logistic regression models to examine the effect of policy design attributes and voter characteristics on policy package support inclinations. Most voters (73%) were inclined towards policy packaging, but sensitive to package design. We found that ‘costly’ measures - I.e., those that restricted or disincentivized unhealthy behaviors - were generally less popular than ‘compensatory’ ones - I.e., those that enabled or incentivized healthy behaviors - in policy packages; however, most participants preferred some combination of both. Participant beliefs regarding the topic of food environment policymaking predicted packaging preferences more so than any socio-demographic, political, or health characteristic. Packaging policy measures together, particularly those with counteracting effects across behavioral and fiscal axes, allows for more comprehensive and politically feasible policymaking to improve food environments. Enhancing science communication on environmental drivers of food choices is vital to bolster support for food environment policy packages. . KEY MESSAGES: • There is an appetite amongst voters for improving food environments that extends beyond the adoption of single measures, and rather towards a policy packaging approach. • Communication that fosters a paradigm shift towards acknowledging environmental influences on diet and health would be vital for fostering support for comprehensive food environment policy packages. Oxford University Press 2023-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10595098/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1648 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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