The impact of interventions to promote healthier ready‐to‐eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets open to the general public: a systematic review

Ready‐to‐eat meals sold by food outlets that are accessible to the general public are an important target for public health intervention. We conducted a systematic review to assess the impact of such interventions.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Obesity Reviews

• Publication date

  2016-11-29

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/obr.12479PMID 27899007PMCID 5244662
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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