Disparities in food access around homes and schools for New York City children

Autor: Dustin T. Duncan, Zachary T. McDermott, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Erilia Wu, Tod Mijanovich, Kosuke Tamura, Brian Elbel, Jessica K. Athens
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
Pediatric Obesity
Restaurants
Physiology
Cross-sectional study
Ethnic group
Social Sciences
Geographical locations
Body Mass Index
Food Supply
Families
Race (biology)
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Residence Characteristics
Medicine and Health Sciences
Ethnicity
Ethnicities
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
Home Education
Child
Socioeconomics
Hispanic People
Children
2. Zero hunger
education.field_of_study
Schools
Multidisciplinary
4. Education
1. No poverty
Hispanic or Latino
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
Geography
Physiological Parameters
Medicine
Female
Diet
Healthy
Research Article
Childhood Obesity
Science
Population
education
New York
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Context (language use)
Sample (statistics)
Childhood obesity
Education
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Humans
Obesity
Students
Poverty
Nutrition
Body Weight
Biology and Life Sciences
medicine.disease
United States
Health Care
Black or African American
Cross-Sectional Studies
Socioeconomic Factors
Age Groups
People and Places
North America
Fast Foods
Population Groupings
New York City
Body mass index
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 6, p e0217341 (2019)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Demographic and income disparities may impact food accessibility. Research has not yet well documented the precise location of healthy and unhealthy food resources around children's homes and schools. The objective of this study was to examine the food environment around homes and schools for all public school children, stratified by race/ethnicity and poverty status. This cross-sectional study linked data on the exact home and school addresses of a population-based sample of public school children in New York City from 2013 to all corner stores, supermarkets, fast-food restaurants, and wait-service restaurants. Two measures were created around these addresses for all children: 1) distance to the nearest outlet, and 2) count of outlets within 0.25 miles. The total analytic sample included 789,520 K-12 graders. The average age was 11.78 years (SD ± 4.0 years). Black, Hispanic, and Asian students live and attend schools closer to nearly all food outlet types than White students, regardless of poverty status. Among not low-income students, Black, Hispanic, and Asian students were closer from home and school to corner stores and supermarkets, and had more supermarkets around school than White students. The context in which children live matters, and more nuanced data is important for development of appropriate solutions for childhood obesity. Future research should examine disparities in the food environment in other geographies and by other demographic characteristics, and then link these differences to health outcomes like body mass index. These findings can be used to better understand disparities in food access and to help design policies intended to promote healthy eating among children.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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