John Rahilly, Alexandra Williams, Michael Chang, Steven Cummins, Daniel Derbyshire, Suzan Hassan, Yuru Huang, Matthew Keeble, Bochu Liu, Antonieta Medina-Lara, Oliver Mytton, Bea Savory, Annie Schiff, Stephen J Sharp, Richard Smith, Claire Thompson, Martin White, Jean Adams, Thomas Burgoine
Physical exposure to takeaway food outlets ("takeaways") is associated with poor diet and excess weight, which are leading causes of excess morbidity and mortality. At the end of 2017, 35 local authorities (LAs) in England had adopted takeaway management zones (or "exclusion zones"), which is an urban planning intervention designed to reduce physical exposure to takeaways around schools. In this nationwide, natural experimental study, we used interrupted time series analyses to estimate the impact of this intervention on changes in the total number of takeaway planning applications received by LAs and the percentage rejected, at both first decision and after any appeal, within management zones, per quarter of calendar year...
April 1, 2024: Health & Place