ArticleBMC public health2023
Ecological study of the association between socioeconomic inequality and food deserts and swamps around schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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- Food Environment Around Schools in a Capital City in Southern Brazil: Changes in the Availability of Commercial Food Establishments Between 2012 and 2019.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Perception of the Food Environment and Food Security Levels of Residents of the City of Rio de Janeiro.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Retail food environment around higher education institutions in a Brazilian metropolis.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Food purchasing places classification system based on the Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population: Locais-Nova.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2025Article
- Paving the way: Urban Health, Food Systems, and the Imperative for Holistic City-Led Action.F1000Research · 2025Review
- Association Between the Food Environment Around Schools and Food Consumption of Adolescents in Large and Small Municipalities in Southern Brazil.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Food and Consumers' Environment Inside and around Federal Public Schools in Bahia, Brazil.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Deserts, Swamps and Food Oases: Mapping around the Schools in Bahia, Brazil and Implications for Ensuring Food and Nutritional Security.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Food environment near schools in the largest Brazilian metropolis: analyses and contributions based on census data.Cadernos de saude publica · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious research suggests that unhealthy community food environments around schools contribute to unhealthy eating habits and negative health outcomes among the youth. However, little is known about how socioeconomic inequalities in those community food environments are associated with food deserts and food swamps across schools' neighborhoods.
methodsAn ecological study was carried out in all 3,159 public and private schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Three measures of socioeconomic inequality were evaluated: per capita income, segregation index and deprivation index. The community school food environment was analyzed by metrics of food swamps and food deserts.
resultsFood deserts and food swamps were simultaneously more prevalent in neighborhoods of the lowest income, high deprivation, and high segregation. Spatial socioeconomic disparities at the neighborhoods of schools were associated with food deserts and food swamps in Rio de Janeiro.
conclusionsOur results point to a spatial socioeconomic inequality of establishments that sell food around schools in a Brazilian metropolis, indicating that the areas of greatest deprivation of food services are also the areas with the worst socioeconomic characteristics.
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