The local food environment and diet: A systematic review
By Caitlin E. Caspi, G. Sorensen, S. Subramanian, Ichiro Kawachi. Health and Place, 2012
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Despite growing attention to the problem of obesogenic environments, there has not been a comprehensive review evaluating the food environment-diet relationship. This study aims to evaluate this relationship in the current literature, focusing specifically on the method of exposure assessment (GIS, survey, or store audit). This study also explores 5 dimensions of “food access” (availability, accessibility, affordability, accommodation, acceptability) using a conceptual definition proposed by Penchansky and Thomas (1981). Articles were retrieved through a systematic keyword search in Web of Science and supplemented by the reference lists of included studies. Thirty-eight studies were reviewed and categorized by the exposure assessment method and the conceptual dimensions of access it captured. GIS-based measures were the most common measures, but were less consistently associated with diet than other measures. Few studies examined dimensions of affordability, accommodation, and acceptability. Because GIS-based measures on their own may not capture important non-geographic dimensions of access, a set of recommendations for future researchers is outlined.
Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Transportation
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- Concepts and critical perspectives for food environment research: A global framework with implications for action in low- and middle-income countries (2018, background): “The scoping of systematic review articles mentioned in Box 1 revealed modest evidence in support of the influence of the food environment on dietary and health outcomes, both amongst adults (Caspi et al., 2012; Gamba et al., 2015) and children (Engler-Stringer et al.”