| Autor: |
Kennedy LJ; 3668Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada., Taylor NGA; 3668Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada., Nicholson T; 432234Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada., Jago E; 3668Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada., MacDonald BL; 432234Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada., Mah CL; 3668Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
| Abstrakt: |
Healthcare organizations engage in continuous quality improvement to improve performance and value-for-performance, but the pathway to change is often rooted in challenging the way things are "normally" done. In an effort to propel system-wide change to support healthy eating, Nova Scotia Health developed and implemented a healthy eating policy as a benchmark to create a food environment supportive of health. This article describes the healthy eating policy and its role as a benchmark in the quality improvement process. The policy, rooted in health promotion, sets a standard for healthy eating and applies to stakeholders both inside and outside of health. We explain how the policy offers nutrition but also cultural benchmarks around healthy eating, bringing practitioners throughout Nova Scotia Health together and sustaining collaborative efforts to improve upon the status quo. |
