AJPM Focus · 13 authors, 6 centres
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This paper describes the development of the COACH framework, a process guide for stakeholders to collaboratively design and implement health-enabling food retail environments. The framework was created using a three-stage iterative method involving evidence review, codesign workshops with practitioners and experts, and refinement through stakeholder feedback.
The study used a 3-stage multimethod framework for coproduction to develop the CO-creation and evaluation of food environments to Advance Community Health (COACH) framework. Methods included an evidence review with systematic literature search and expert consultation, codesign of a prototype with stakeholders, and coproduction through workshops and evaluation. The implications are that COACH provides an adaptive, systems-oriented process to guide researchers and practitioners in creating healthy food retail environments.
