Observational studyPublic health nutrition2017
Greater access to healthy food outlets in the home and school environment is associated with better dietary quality in young children.
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- Fast-food restaurant, unhealthy eating, and childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Grocery store access and childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- The UK Food Environment: A Systematic Review of Domains, Methodologies, and Outcomes.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Review
- Preschool Children's Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Food Shopping Establishments: The SENDO Project.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Spanish Validation of the Self-Perceived Food Literacy Scale: A Five-Factor Model Proposition.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Assessing physical access to healthy food across United Kingdom: A systematic review of measures and findings.Obesity science & practice · 2022Review
- Parental perceptions of the food environment and their influence on food decisions among low-income families: a rapid review of qualitative evidence.BMC public health · 2022Review
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- Unhealthy food options in the school environment are associated with diet quality and body weights of elementary school children in Canada.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Food Environment in and around Primary School Children's Schools and Neighborhoods in Two Urban Settings in Kenya.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- "It's Important but, on What Level?": Healthy Cooking Meanings and Barriers to Healthy Eating among University Students.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Development of a Teen-Informed Coding Tool to Measure the Power of Food Advertisements.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Associations between home and school neighbourhood food environments and adolescents' fast-food and sugar-sweetened beverage intakes: findings from the Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) Study.Public health nutrition · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore associations between dietary quality and access to different types of food outlets around both home and school in primary school-aged children.
designCross-sectional observational study.
settingHampshire, UK. SUBJECTS: Children (n 1173) in the Southampton Women's Survey underwent dietary assessment at age 6 years by FFQ and a standardised diet quality score was calculated. An activity space around each child's home and school was created using ArcGIS. Cross-sectional observational food outlet data were overlaid to derive four food environment measures: counts of supermarkets, healthy specialty stores (e.g. greengrocers), fast-food outlets and total number of outlets, and a relative measure representing healthy outlets (supermarkets and specialty stores) as a proportion of total retail and fast-food outlets.
resultsIn univariate multilevel linear regression analyses, better diet score was associated with exposure to greater number of healthy specialty stores (β=0·025 sd/store: 95 % CI 0·007, 0·044) and greater exposure to healthy outlets relative to all outlets in children's activity spaces (β=0·068 sd/10 % increase in healthy outlets as a proportion of total outlets, 95 % CI 0·018, 0·117). After adjustment for mothers' educational qualification and level of home neighbourhood deprivation, the relationship between diet and healthy specialty stores remained robust (P=0·002) while the relationship with the relative measure weakened (P=0·095). Greater exposure to supermarkets and fast-food outlets was associated with better diet only in the adjusted models (P=0·017 and P=0·014, respectively).
conclusionsThe results strengthen the argument for local authorities to increase the number of healthy food outlets to which young children are exposed.
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