Health (f)or Profit?:Systemic challenges for the promotion of healthy dietary behaviours in the Dutch food-retail system

Unhealthy dietary behaviours are a major threat to public health, in which the modern food-retail environment (e.g., supermarkets) have a substantial role. In recent years, there has been a growing realization that these environments are themselves the products of underlying systemic factors and dynamics, which obstruct attempts to address these environments. In this thesis we set out to explore this issue, with the objective “to acquire insight into the factors in food-retail systems which underlie the persistence of drivers of unhealthy dietary behaviours in retail food environments, and to... Mehr ...