Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI)
Basic Information
The Food-EPI is a 14-item tool, which comprises a ‘policy’ component with seven domains on specific aspects of food environments, and an ‘infrastructure support’ component with seven domains to strengthen systems to prevent obesity and non-communicable diseases.
Transferability of measure across settings: Setting-specific
Citing Literature
Development article: Swinburn B, Vandevijvere S, Kraak V, et al. Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments: a proposed Government Healthy Food Environment Policy Index. Obesity Reviews. 2013;14 Suppl 1:24-37. doi:10.1111/obr.12073
Empirical use: Vandevijvere S, Mackay S, Swinburn B. Measuring and stimulating progress on implementing widely recommended food environment policies: the New Zealand case study. Health Research Policy and Systems. 2018;16(1):3. doi:10.1186/s12961-018-0278-0
Policy Application in Reviewed Studies
Setting: Multiple: Public sector organizations
Topic: Nutrition
Country: New Zealand
PAPERS Ratings

Note: Blank pragmatic constructs indicate inadequate reporting to assign a non-zero score.
Overall PAPERS Pragmatic Score:
9

Note: Blank pragmatic constructs indicate inadequate reporting to assign a non-zero score.
Overall PAPERS Psychometric Score:
0