(P28-004-25) Food Policy Research and Review Using Rapid Review Methodology and Constructing and Visualizing Bibliometric Networks

Objectives: Objective of this paper was to identify policies with the strongest effects on public health according to the available literature. Society increasingly recognizes the connection between public health and a resilient and sustainable food system. Globally, rising incomes, urbanization, and industrialization of the food chain led to the adoption of a Western diet, rich in meat, refined sugars, and fats. Food policies can provide a strong stimulus to improve the population's health and prevent malignant disease, thus improving the entire population's well-being.

Methods: The Web of Science database was searched and review articles from relevant fields were considered. According to the keywords specified and the methodology, 1326 publications met the inclusion criteria. The literature prepared in this way was processed in the software package for bibliographic analysis "VOS Viewer".

Results: Papers were from 112 different categories related to nutrition, medicine, agronomy, and ecology. Almost 50% of the works were from the categories of Nutrition and Dietetics and Public Health. Through software analysis, 555 keywords were identified that appear 5 or more times in the selected publications. The ten most frequent keywords in the examined publications were: obesity, nutrition quality, health, politics, food, children, physical activity, consumption, and food availability.

Conclusions: The strongest connections were between concepts of food, diet/eating habits, consumption, obesity, excess, and public health, which was the main basis of the work. This methodology was used to identify food policies with the strongest effects on public health. The recommendations are to integrate modern approaches - food policies such as: establishing educational programs on food, introducing restrictions and prohibitions related to unhealthy food, providing better access to healthy food, improving monitoring and evaluation, and working on food safety.

Funding Sources: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.