Dietary inequalities: what is the evidence for the effect of the neighbourhood food environment?
Dietary inequalities: what is the evidence for the effect of the neighbourhood food environment?
This review summarises the evidence for inequalities in community and consumer nutrition environments from ten previous review articles, and also assesses the evidence for the effect of the community and consumer nutrition environments on dietary intake. There is evidence for inequalities in food access in the US but trends are less apparent in other developed countries. There is a trend for greater access and availability to healthy and less healthy foods relating to better and poorer dietary outcomes respectively. Trends for price show that higher prices of healthy foods are associated with better dietary outcomes. More nuanced measures of the food environment, including multidimensional and individualised approaches, would enhance the state of the evidence and help inform future interventions.
food environment, dietary inequalities, review
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Black, Christina
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Moon, Graham
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Baird, Janis
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17 October 2013
Black, Christina
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Moon, Graham
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Baird, Janis
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Abstract
This review summarises the evidence for inequalities in community and consumer nutrition environments from ten previous review articles, and also assesses the evidence for the effect of the community and consumer nutrition environments on dietary intake. There is evidence for inequalities in food access in the US but trends are less apparent in other developed countries. There is a trend for greater access and availability to healthy and less healthy foods relating to better and poorer dietary outcomes respectively. Trends for price show that higher prices of healthy foods are associated with better dietary outcomes. More nuanced measures of the food environment, including multidimensional and individualised approaches, would enhance the state of the evidence and help inform future interventions.
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Published date: 17 October 2013
Keywords:
food environment, dietary inequalities, review
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Population, Health & Wellbeing (PHeW)
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Local EPrints ID: 360313
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/360313
ISSN: 1353-8292
PURE UUID: b3406400-cf51-4eb6-a7ab-8ad8d6cbfc47
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Date deposited: 04 Dec 2013 11:48
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:35
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