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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Andretti, Bernardo
• Cardoso, Letícia Oliveira
• Honório, Olivia Souza
• de Castro Junior, Paulo César Pereira
• Tavares, Letícia Ferreira
• da Costa Gaspar da Silva, Isabela
• Mendes, Larissa Loures

Titel

Ecological study of the association between socioeconomic inequality and food deserts and swamps around schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ist Teil von

• BMC public health, 2023-01, Vol.23 (1), p.120-120, Article 120

Ort / Verlag

England: BioMed Central Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Previous 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. An 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. Food 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. Our 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.