ArticlePublic health nutrition2023
Scientific research on food environments in Brazil: a scoping review.
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- Instruments for assessing organisational food environments of workplaces: a scoping review.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- The food environment in favelas is associated with the presence of arterial hypertension and diabetes in socially vulnerable women.Public health nutrition · 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
- 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
- Conceptual Model on Access to Food in the Favela Food Environment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Comparison of the audit method and secondary data sources for assessing health-related characteristics of the built environment in a Brazilian city.Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
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12 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo map the scientific research on food environments in Brazil, based on the following questions: How many studies have addressed food environments?; What study designs and methodological approaches were applied?; What is the geographic scope of the studies?; What scenarios and dimensions of food environments were studied?; Which population groups were studied?; How were food environments conceptualised?; What are the main limitations of the studies?
designScoping review conducted in four databases, from January 2005 to December 2022, using different food environment-related terms to cover the main types and dimensions proposed in the literature. The studies were independently selected by two authors. A narrative synthesis was used to summarise the findings.
settingBrazil.
participants130 articles.
resultsScientific research on Brazilian food environments has been increasing. The analytical quantitative approach and the cross-sectional design were the most frequently used. Most articles were published in English. The majority of studies evaluated the community food environment, addressed aspects of the physical dimension, sampled the adult population, had food consumption as an outcome, used primary data, and were carried out in capital cities in the Southeast region. Furthermore, in most articles, no conceptual model was explicitly adopted.
conclusionsGaps in literature are related to the need for conducting studies in the Brazilian countryside, the support for the formulation of research questions based on conceptual models, the use of valid and reliable instruments to collect primary data, in addition to the need for a greater number of longitudinal, intervention and qualitative studies.
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