Improving Economic Access to Healthy Diets in First Nations Communities in High-Income, Colonised Countries: A Systematic Scoping Review by Amanda J. Lee, Lisa-Maree Herron, Stephan Rainow, Lisa Wells, Ingrid Kenny, Leon Kenny, Imogen Wells, Margaret Kavanagh, Suzanne Bryce, and Liza Balmer explores interventions aimed at improving economic access to healthy food for First Nations Peoples in Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand. This scoping review identified 35 studies that broadly categorized interventions such as price discounts, direct subsidies to stores, free healthy food, and vouchers. Successful strategies included food boxes, fresh produce prescriptions, subsidized meals, and programs promoting traditional foods. Community co-design, optimal program promotion, and targeting a variety of healthy foods were key enablers, while barriers included inadequate resources, short program duration, and insufficient subsidies.
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