Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast-food retailing - A national study
Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast-food retailing - A national study
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DOI：
10.1016/j.amepre.2007.01.009
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发表时间：
2007-05-01
影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Bartie, Phil
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作者：
Pearce, Jamie;Blakely, Tony;Bartie, Phil
背景资料：肥胖环境可能是日益增长的肥胖流行病的一个重要背景解释，包括其不平等的社会分布。本研究的目的是确定是否地理访问快餐店不同的邻里剥夺和学校的社会经济地位，以及是否有任何这样的协会不同的那些访问健康的food outlets.Methods：数据收集的位置上的快餐店，超市，便利店在新西兰。这些数据被地理编码，地理信息系统被用来计算从每个人口普查网格块（即，每个学校都有一个最接近的快餐店。平均旅行距离是根据每个社区的社会经济贫困指数和教育部对每个学校的社会经济情况的衡量来报告的。结果：在全国范围内，在邻近的快餐店和邻近的贫困之间发现了统计学上显著的负相关（p
Background: Obesogenic environments may be an important contextual explanation for the growing obesity epidemic, including its unequal social distribution. The objective of this study was to determine whether geographic access to fast-food outlets varied by neighborhood deprivation and school socioeconomic ranking, and whether any such associations differed to those for access to healthier food outlets.Methods: Data were collected on the location of fast-food outlets, supermarkets, and convenience stores across New Zealand. The data were geocoded and geographic information systems used to calculate travel distances from each census meshblock (i.e., neighborhood), and each school, to the closest fast-food outlet. Median travel distances are reported by a census-based index of socioeconomic deprivation for each neighborhood, and by a Ministry of Education measure of socioeconomic circumstances for each school. Analyses were repeated for outlets selling healthy food to allow comparisons.Results: At the national level, statistically significant negative associations were found between neighborhood access to the nearest fast-food outlet and neighborhood deprivation (p