Legislation purpose and tools to accomplish its purpose by targeted risk factor
| Variable | Risk factor; no. (%) of documents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tobacco control n = 190 | Physical activity n = 215 | Healthy eating n = 101 | Multiple factors* n = 100 | Total† n = 718 | |
| Purpose | |||||
| Primary — explicit | 10 (5.3) | 19 (8.8) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (5.0) | 35 (4.9) |
| Primary — implicit | 119 (62.6) | 39 (18.1) | 7 (6.9) | 7 (7.0) | 175 (24.4) |
| Secondary | 56 (29.5) | 114 (53.0) | 24 (23.8) | 75 (75.0) | 307 (42.8) |
| No purpose | 4 (2.1) | 43 (20.0) | 70 (69.3) | 12 (12.0) | 199 (27.7) |
| Missing | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.0) | 2 (0.3) |
| Tools to accomplish purpose | |||||
| Tax and spend | 33 (17.4) | 44 (20.5) | 6 (5.9) | 13 (13.0) | 100 (13.9) |
| Direct regulation | 148 (77.9) | 30 (14.0) | 18 (17.8) | 67 (67.0) | 269 (37.5) |
| Indirect regulation | 17 (8.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 17 (2.4) |
| Regulation through public body | 15 (7.9) | 64 (29.8) | 8 (7.9) | 8 (8.0) | 128 (17.8) |
| Alter informational environment | 32 (16.8) | 2 (0.9) | 4 (4.0) | 2 (2.0) | 42 (5.8) |
| Alter built environment | 3 (1.6) | 124 (57.7) | 0 (0.0) | 39 (39.0) | 185 (25.8) |
| Alter socioeconomic environment | 1 (0.5) | 4 (1.9) | 3 (3.0) | 2 (2.0) | 10 (1.4) |