This article considers how health promotion can use planning as a tool to enhance healthy eating choices. It draws on research in relation to the availability and concentration of fast food outlets in a London borough. Current public health policy is confining planning to local settings within a narrow framework drawing on discourses from social psychology and libertarian economics. Policy is focusing on behaviour change, voluntary agreements and devolution of the public health function to local authorities. Such a framework presents barriers to effective equity-based health promotion. A social determinant-based health promotion strategy would be consistent with a national regulatory infrastructure supporting planning. © 2012 Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública.
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Caraher, M., O’Keefe, E., Lloyd, S., & Madelin, T. (2013). The planning system and fast food outlets in London: Lessons for health promotion practice. Revista Portuguesa de Saude Publica, 31(1), 49–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rpsp.2013.01.001
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