Guide 3: Working with local governments to create healthier local retail food environments

This guide aims to describe best-practice approaches to engage local governments in healthy food retail initiatives and summarise the evidence on effective local government interventions to promote healthy eating in retail food environments.

This resource is one of 16 that form the ‘Best Practice Guides for Conducting Healthy Food Research’ – designed to support researchers and anyone else involved in planning, conducting, evaluating, or communicating healthy food retail research.

Suggested citation: Scapin T, Boelsen-Robinson T, Naughton S, et al. A best practice guide for conducting healthy food retail research: A resource for researchers and health promotion practitioners. Obesity Reviews. 2025;e13870.doi:10.1111/obr.13870.

For more information

Visit the ‘best-practice guides for conducting healthy food retail research’ project page for more information on the project and to access all the guides.

Read the journal article to learn how the guides were developed and peer reviewed.