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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2010

Neighbourhood-socioeconomic variation in women's diet: the role of nutrition environments.

L E Thornton, D A Crawford, K Ball

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Article in European journal of clinical nutrition, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  3. Dietary assessment in food environment research: a systematic review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2014
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L E ThorntonCentre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia. lukar.thornton@deakin.edu.au
D A Crawford
K Ball

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objectivesLiving in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods is associated with increased risk of a poor diet; however, the mechanisms underlying associations are not well understood. This study investigated whether selected healthy and unhealthy dietary behaviours are patterned by neighbourhood-socioeconomic disadvantage, and if so, whether features of the neighbourhood-nutrition environment explain these associations. SUBJECTS/

methodsA survey was completed by 1399 women from 45 neighbourhoods of varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage in Melbourne, Australia. Survey data on fruit, vegetable and fast-food consumption were linked with data on food store locations (supermarket, greengrocer and fast-food store density and proximity) and within-store factors (in-store data on price and availability for supermarkets and greengrocers) obtained through objective audits. Multilevel regression analyses were used to examine associations of neighbourhood disadvantage with fruit, vegetable and fast-food consumption, and to test whether nutrition environment factors mediated these associations.

resultsAfter controlling for individual-level demographic and socioeconomic factors, neighbourhood disadvantage was associated with less vegetable consumption and more fast-food consumption, but not with fruit consumption. Some nutrition environmental factors were associated with both neighbourhood disadvantage and with diet. Nutrition environmental features did not mediate neighbourhood-disadvantage variations in vegetable or fast-food consumption.

conclusionsAlthough we found poorer diets among women living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Melbourne, the differences were not attributable to less supportive nutrition environments in these neighbourhoods.

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DietFood SupplyResidence CharacteristicsSocioeconomic FactorsAdolescentAdultAgedAustraliaFast FoodsFemaleFruitHealth BehaviorHumansMiddle AgedMultilevel AnalysisNutritional Physiological Phenomena

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