Area Deprivation and the Food Environment over Time: A Repeated Cross-sectional Study on Takeaway Outlet Density and Supermarket Presence in Norfolk, UK, 1990-2008

Overview

Journal Health Place

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Public Health

Date 2015 Apr 6

PMID 25841285

Citations 86

Authors

Eva R Maguire

Thomas Burgoine

Pablo Monsivais

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Abstract

Socioeconomic disparities in the food environment are known to exist but with little understanding of change over time. This study investigated the density of takeaway food outlets and presence of supermarkets in Norfolk, UK between 1990 and 2008. Data on food retail outlet locations were collected from telephone directories and aggregated within electoral wards. Supermarket presence was not associated with area deprivation over time. Takeaway food outlet density increased overall, and was significantly higher in more deprived areas at all time points; furthermore, socioeconomic disparities in takeaway food outlet density increased across the study period. These findings add to existing evidence and help assess the need for environmental interventions to reduce disparities in the prevalence of unhealthy food outlets.

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