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. 2022 Aug 25;46:e33. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2022.33

TABLE 2. Examples of included community-level and national- or policy-level interventions, classified by the components of the NOURISHING framework (19).

Intervention component

Examples of interventions

Comment

N 1

Regulations on standard nutritional information labelling; front-of-pack sugar warnings (2426)

Least commonly reported

O

School nutrition policies; school lunch programmes; offering fortified snacks; healthier foods on supermarket shelves (23, 2730)

Least commonly reported

U

Taxes and subsidy-framed messages on vending machines (26)

NA

R

Tackling marketing of breastmilk substitutes and general advertising to children (25, 31, 32)

NA

I 1

Reformulation of preschool meals; salt reduction by food businesses; wheat/rice fortification (21, 33, 34)

NA

S

Incentives for food businesses to reduce salt; school nutrition policies; taxation or import ban of unhealthy foods (21, 29, 35, 36)

Always accompanied by other components, most commonly with (O)

H

Legislative frameworks and intersectoral coordination to support food fortification; introduction of new cultivars to farmers; land reform; MAISMA project (WHO-guided multifaceted salt reduction intervention) (3639)

Always accompanied by other components, most commonly with (I1)

I 2

Public awareness campaigns; promotion of national dietary guidelines; national policies to limit fat and salt intake; school nutrition programs (22, 29, 39, 40)

Commonly reported; typically ran in tandem with projects with wider scope, most commonly with (G) and (O)

N 2

Breastfeeding promotion; diabetes self-management programs (31, 4144)

NA

G

School and community gardening; curriculum-based nutritional education within schools; curriculum-based behavior-change program targeting fruit and vegetable intake in middle-aged women (4550)

Most commonly reported

Other

Provision of ready-to-use infant formulas in camps for internally displaced people during humanitarian response following an earthquake; training of children as peer influencers in school social networks to increase water consumption and decrease consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (51, 52)

These interventions are not classifiable by the NOURISHING framework as they lacked sufficient detail or differed greatly from the existing components.

NA, not applicable.

Source: prepared by the authors from the results of this review.