scholarly journals Is the Focus on Food Deserts Fruitless? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie Handbury ◽  
Ilya Rahkovsky ◽  
Molly Schnell
Keyword(s):  
Food Deserts ◽  
Food Purchases ◽  
Retail Access

scholarly journals Deprivation, Diet, and Food-Retail Access: Findings from the Leeds ‘Food Deserts' Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Wrigley ◽  
Daniel Warm ◽  
Barrie Margetts
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Healthcare Intervention ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Food Retail ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Retail Access

Within a context of public policy debate in the United Kingdom on social exclusion, health inequalities, and food poverty, the metaphor of the ‘food desert’ caught the imagination of those involved in policy development. Drawing from a major cross-disciplinary investigation of food access and food poverty in British cities, the authors report in this paper findings from the first ‘before/after’ study of food consumption in a highly deprived area of a British city experiencing a sudden and significant change in its food-retail access. The study has been viewed as the first opportunity in the United Kingdom to assess the impact of a non-healthcare intervention (specifically a retail-provision intervention) on food-consumption patterns, and by extension diet-related health, in such a deprived, previously poor-retail-access community. The paper offers evidence of a positive but modest impact of the retail intervention on diet, and the authors discuss the ways in which their findings are potentially significant in the context of policy debate.

Creating Grocery Delivery Hubs for Food Deserts at Local Convenience Stores via Spatial and Temporal Consolidation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulqarnain Haider ◽  
Yujie Hu ◽  
Hadi Charkhgard ◽  
David Himmelgreen ◽  
Changhyun Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Food Deserts ◽  
Convenience Stores

Temporal Trends in Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Water Footprint, and Ecological Footprint of Food Purchases in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas From 1987 to 2017

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Tereza da Silva ◽  
Josefa Maria Felleger Garzillo ◽  
Fernanda Rauber ◽  
Alana Marielle Rodrigues Gald Kluczkovski ◽  
Ximena Schmidt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Water Footprint ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Food Purchases

scholarly journals The impact of the Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition label on purchasing intentions of unprocessed and processed foods: post-hoc analyses from three randomized controlled trials

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manon Egnell ◽  
Pilar Galan ◽  
Morgane Fialon ◽  
Mathilde Touvier ◽  
Sandrine Péneau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trials ◽  
Low Income ◽  
P Value ◽  
Controlled Trials ◽  
Nutrition Label ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Food Purchases ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Processed Products ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background The Nutri-Score summary graded front-of-pack nutrition label has been identified as an efficient tool to increase the nutritional quality of pre-packed food purchases. However, no study has been conducted to investigate the effect of the Nutri-Score on the shopping cart composition, considering the type of foods. The present paper aims to investigate the effect of the Nutri-Score on the type of food purchases, in terms of the relative contribution of unpacked and pre-packed foods, or the processing degree of foods. Methods Between September 2016 and April 2017, three consecutive randomized controlled trials were conducted in three specific populations – students (N = 1866), low-income individuals (N = 336) and subjects suffering from cardiometabolic diseases (N = 1180) – to investigate the effect of the Nutri-Score on purchasing intentions compared to the Reference Intakes and no label. Using these combined data, the proportion of unpacked products in the shopping carts, as well as the distribution of products across food categories taking into account the degree of processing (NOVA classification) were assessed by trials arm. Results The shopping carts of participants simulating purchases with the Nutri-Score affixed on pre-packed foods contained higher proportion of unpacked products – especially raw fruits and meats, i.e. with no FoPL –, compared to participants purchasing with no label (difference of 5.93 percentage points [3.88–7.99], p-value< 0.0001) or with the Reference Intakes (difference of 5.27[3.25–7.29], p-value< 0.0001). This higher proportion was partly explained by fewer purchases of pre-packed processed and ultra-processed products overall in the Nutri-Score group. Conclusions These findings provide new insights on the positive effect of the Nutri-Score, which appears to decrease purchases in processed products resulting in higher proportions of unprocessed and unpacked foods, in line with public health recommendations.

scholarly journals Self-Reported Dental Caries by Mexican Elementary and Middle-School Schoolchildren in the Context of Socioeconomic Indicators: A National Ecological Study

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Juan Fernando Casanova-Rosado ◽  
Alejandro José Casanova-Rosado ◽  
Mirna Minaya-Sánchez ◽  
Juan Alejandro Casanova-Sarmiento ◽  
José Luis Robles-Minaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Dental Caries ◽  
School Health ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Socioeconomic Indicators ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
Socioeconomic Variables ◽  
Food Purchases ◽  
Mexican Children

The objective of the present research was to quantify the association between dental caries self-report and socioeconomic indicators in Mexican children. An ecological study included a self-report of dental caries in schoolchildren enrolled in public elementary and middle schools derived from the National School Health Survey. A total of 73,560 schoolchildren (representing 19,745,366 students) aged 5 to 16 years were included. Socioeconomic variables included were scales depicting physical characteristics of housing, purchasing power, etc. used in national surveys in Mexico to measure deprivation, poverty, and income inequality in official data. Data were analyzed in Stata using Spearman’s correlation test. For the most part, no association (p > 0.05) was found between caries self-report, socioeconomic variables, or the Gini index. However, caries self-report in elementary schoolchildren and total (elementary + middle-school) schoolchildren groups was positively correlated (p < 0.05) with two poverty variables: extreme poverty by income (value of personal food purchases per month) and poverty by income (value of personal food and non-food purchases per month). National data for dental caries self-report were associated—at the ecological level—with a few socioeconomic indicators but not with most of the usual and customary indicators used in national surveys in Mexico.

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