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Table 5.

Overview of Specific Tools to Assess Different Food Environment Elements.

Tools	Availability	Affordability	Convenience	Promotion and Quality	Sustainable Properties	References
Nutritional Environment Measurement Survey (NEMS) (versions: restaurants, stores, corner stores, vending, grab and go, and Rudd Center Revised version) ^†						[138,139,140]
Nutritional Environment Measurement Survey-Perceived (NEMS-P)						[138,141]
Short Form Audit Instrument for Assessing Corner Store Healthfulness						[142]
INFORMAS food retail						[107]
Healthy Eating Indicator Shopping Basket (HEISB)						[143]
Freedman Food Store Survey						[144]
Baltimore Healthy Stores Project Store Evaluation Form						[145,146]
Food Environment Availability and Cost Measures						[147]
ProColor Diversity Tool						[36]
Community Health Environment Scan Survey (CHESS)						[148]
Measurement of healthfulness of food retail stores						[109]
Food Environment Classification Tool						[78,112]
Retail Food Environment Index (RFEI)						[78,149]
Food Availability and Marketing Survey						[150]
Community Food Security Assessment Tool						[151]
Nutrition Environment Assessment Tool						[152]
New Jersey Child Health Study Survey						[153]
Teens food service data collection instrument						[154]
Survey of healthy activity and eating practices and environments in Head Start (SHAPES)						[155]
Food and beverage Marketing Assessment Tool for Settings (FoodMATS)						[156]
Restaurant Menu Checklist						[157]
Perceived Availability of Healthy Food Questions						[158]
Neighborhood Food Assessment Tool						[159]
Health Empowerment Zone Grocery Store Checklist *						[160]
Grocery Store Audit Tool and Fast Food Restaurant Audit Tool						[161]
Shannon diversity Modified Functional Attribute Diversity						[116,117]
Cost of Diet						[121]
Cost of Nutrient Adequacy						[50]
Cost of a Recommended Diet						[122]
Nutritious Food Price Index						[122]
INFORMAS food price module						[105]
Cost of a healthy and sustainable food basket						[162]
Price Comparison Tool						[159]
INFORMAS Food Provision Module						[163]
INFORMAS Food Composition Module						[164]
Children’s Menu Assessment						[165]
INFORMAS Food Labelling Module						[166]
INFORMAS Food Promotion Module						[167]
Checklist of Health Promotion Environments at Worksites (CHEW)						[168]
Store Layout and Marketing Analysis						[159]
Grocery store survey						[113,167]
ProDesirability Tool						[53]
American Time Use Survey (ATUS)						[169,170,171]
Photovoice						[172,173]

Color Coding: Inline graphic Objective measure; Perceived measure; Both objective and perceived; ^† Measurement of promotion and quality only included in NEMS-R; * Measurement of convenience relates only to access for people with disabilities; INFORMAS: International Network for Food and Obesity/Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) Research, Monitoring and Action Support.