Jia Si Si, Bennett Rebecca, Gupta Adyya
The University of Sydney, Sydney School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
The University of Sydney, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Eur J Clin Nutr. 2025 Mar 19. doi: 10.1038/s41430-025-01597-y.
The United Nations Decade of Nutrition was declared on 1 April 2016 to accelerate action to achieve global nutrition and diet-related non-communicable disease targets by 2025. Meal delivery applications offering takeaway meals and ready-to-eat foods from restaurant kitchen to doorstep via a third-party courier, have proliferated as a new digital dimension to traditional food environments. These digital platforms threaten to disrupt progress towards creating a health-enabling food environment. This article outlines the emergence of the digital food environment-its dimensions, actors and target users, and critically appraises the research on the public health impact of meal delivery applications to-date. We propose a research agenda to measure, monitor and mitigate the risks which meal delivery applications pose to population health and wellbeing, which may impact the United Nation's Decade of Action on Nutrition. The rapidly evolving digital era of new technologies and innovation presents a unique window of opportunity for public health research and policy.
2016年4月1日宣布了联合国营养十年计划，以加快行动，到2025年实现全球营养及与饮食相关的非传染性疾病目标。外卖送餐应用程序通过第三方快递员将餐厅厨房的外卖餐食和即食食品送到家门口，作为传统食品环境的一个新的数字维度迅速扩散。这些数字平台有可能扰乱创建促进健康的食品环境的进程。本文概述了数字食品环境的出现——其维度、参与者和目标用户，并批判性地评估了迄今为止关于外卖送餐应用程序对公共卫生影响的研究。我们提出了一项研究议程，以衡量、监测和减轻外卖送餐应用程序对人群健康和福祉构成的风险，这些风险可能会影响联合国营养行动十年计划。新技术和创新迅速发展的数字时代为公共卫生研究和政策提供了一个独特的机遇之窗。
