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Planning healthy food environments: An analysis of local government municipal public health and wellbeing policy in regional Victoria.

Fiona DangerfieldKylie BallVirginia Dickson-SwiftLukar E Thornton
Published in: Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals (2024)
There is an opportunity for Australian regional local governments to include in their public health and wellbeing plans a greater emphasis on supporting healthy food behaviours, and therefore seeking opportunities to improve food environments through clearly aligned priorities, objectives, actions and measures of success. SO WHAT?: Improving the quality of public health and wellbeing plans can support local government to use policy to drive improvements in food environments leading to improved health and wellbeing for regional communities.
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