Dietary Inequalities: What is the Evidence for the Effect of the Neighbourhood Food Environment?

Overview

Journal Health Place

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Public Health

Date 2013 Nov 9

PMID 24200470

Citations 144

Authors

Christina Black

Graham Moon

Janis Baird

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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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