Does living in a disadvantaged area mean fewer opportunities to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables in the area? Findings from the Brisbane food study

Winkler, Elisabeth; Turrell, Gavin; Patterson, Carla

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2004.08.013

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“…The findings of no association with socio-economic characteristics for supermarket exposure support previous research conducted in other cities such as Cardiff, Leeds and Bradford in the UK (44) , Montreal and Edmonton in Canada (45)(46)(47) and Brisbane in Australia (48) , which found low-income areas having equal if not better access to supermarkets than more affluent ones.…”

Section: Supermarket Exposuresupporting

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Supermarket and fast-food outlet exposure in Copenhagen: associations with socio-economic and demographic characteristics

Svastisalee

Nordahl

Glümer

et al. 2011

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To investigate whether exposure to fast-food outlets and supermarkets is socio-economically patterned in the city of Copenhagen. Design: The study was based on a cross-sectional multivariate approach to examine the association between the number of fast-food outlets and supermarkets and neighbourhood-level socio-economic indicators. Food business addresses were obtained from commercial and public business locators and geocoded using a geographic information system for all neighbourhoods in the city of Copenhagen (n 400). The regression of counts of fast-food outlets and supermarkets v. indicators of socio-economic status (percentage of recent immigrants, percentage without a high-school diploma, percentage of the population under 35 years of age and average household income in Euros) was performed using negative binomial analysis. Setting: Copenhagen, Denmark. Subjects: The unit of analysis was neighbourhood (n 400). Results: In the fully adjusted models, income was not a significant predictor for supermarket exposure. However, neighbourhoods with low and mid-low income were associated with significantly fewer fast-food outlets. Using backwise deletion from the fully adjusted models, low income remained significantly associated with fast-food outlet exposure (rate ratio 5 0?66-0?80) in the final model. Conclusions: In the city of Copenhagen, there was no evidence of spatial patterning of supermarkets by income. However, we detected a trend in the exposure to fast-food outlets, such that neighbourhoods in the lowest income quartile had fewer fast-food outlets than higher-income neighbourhoods. These findings have similarities with studies conducted in the UK, but not in the USA. The results suggest there may be socio-economic factors other than income associated with food exposure in Europe.

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Section: Supermarket Exposuresupporting

confidence: 86%

Supermarket and fast-food outlet exposure in Copenhagen: associations with socio-economic and demographic characteristics

Svastisalee

Nordahl

Glümer

et al. 2011

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Our main SEP measures were income and a self-report scale. Income reporting in surveys is often inaccurate; disposable income, though more complex to assess, may be a better predictor of behaviour (Moore, Stinson, & Welniak, 2000;Winkler, Turrell, & Patterson, 2006). The subjective SEP measure which we used did capture some more fine-grained aspects of resource availability, such as disposable income and financial stability, which would not be captured simply by asking people for their gross annual income.…”

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Perceived extrinsic mortality risk and reported effort in looking after health: Testing a behavioural ecological prediction

Pepper

Nettle

2013

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Abstract:Socioeconomic gradients in health behaviour are pervasive and well documented.Yet, there is little consensus on their causes. Behavioural ecological theory predicts that, if people of lower socioeconomic position (SEP) perceive greater personal extrinsic mortality risk than those of higher SEP, they should disinvest in their future health. We surveyed North American adults for reported effort in looking after health, perceived extrinsic and intrinsic mortality risks, and measures of SEP. We examined the relationships between these variables and found that lower subjective SEP predicted lower reported health effort. Lower subjective SEP was also associated with higher perceived extrinsic mortality risk, which in turn predicted lower reported health effort. The effect of subjective SEP on reported health effort was completely mediated by perceived extrinsic mortality risk. Our findings indicate that perceived extrinsic mortality risk may be a key factor underlying SEP gradients in motivation to invest in future health.PeerJ PrePrints | https://peerj.com/preprints/29v2/ | v2

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“…For instance, increasing evidence demonstrates that those residing in disadvantaged areas have less access to supermarkets, greater access to fast food and convenience stores, and fewer healthy food choices available in stores (14)(15)(16)(17)(18) . However, evidence of socio-economic differences in the food environment remains equivocal, particularly among studies conducted outside the USA, where little difference in access and availability of food stores is observed between neighbourhoods of varying levels of disadvantage (16,(19)(20)(21)(22) and limited evidence exists that poorer diet maintained by low SEP women is attributable to less supportive food environments (23) . Although much of the research focuses on area-level SEP differences in the food environment, individual-level SEP can also influence differences in perceptions of the nutrition environment.…”

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Is the objective food environment associated with perceptions of the food environment?

Williams

Thornton

Ball

et al. 2011

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The present study examined whether objective measures of the food environment are associated with perceptions of the food environment and whether this relationship varies by socio-economic disadvantage. Design: The study is a cross-sectional analysis of self-report surveys and objective environment data. Women reported their perceptions on the nutrition environment. Participants' homes and food stores were geocoded to measure the objective community nutrition environment. Data on the average price and variety of fruit and vegetables were used to measure the objective consumer nutrition environment. Setting: The study was conducted in Melbourne, Australia, in 2003Australia, in -2004. Subjects: Data presented are from a sample of 1393 women aged 18-65 years. Results: Overall the match between the perceived and objective environment was poor, underscoring the limitations in using perceptions of the environment as a proxy for the objective environment. Socio-economic disadvantage had limited impact on the relationship between perceived and objective nutrition environment. Conclusions: Further research is needed to understand the determinants of perceptions of the nutrition environment to enhance our understanding of the role of perceptions in nutrition choices and drivers of socio-economic inequalities in nutrition.

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Does living in a disadvantaged area mean fewer opportunities to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables in the area? Findings from the Brisbane food study

Cited by 98 publications

References 48 publications

Supermarket and fast-food outlet exposure in Copenhagen: associations with socio-economic and demographic characteristics

Supermarket and fast-food outlet exposure in Copenhagen: associations with socio-economic and demographic characteristics

Perceived extrinsic mortality risk and reported effort in looking after health: Testing a behavioural ecological prediction

Is the objective food environment associated with perceptions of the food environment?

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