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Social inequities in the food retail patterns around schools in Recife, Brazil
Sabrina Gomes Ferreira Clark1, Larissa Loures Mendes2, Olivia Souza Honório3
1Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Av. Professor Moraes Rego 1.235. 50670-901 Recife PR Brasil. sabrina.ferreira@ufpe.br.
Abstract:
This study aimed to describe the community food environment surrounding schools and its association with territorial socio-environmental vulnerability in the city with the highest intraurban social inequity index in Brazil.
Methods:
this ecological observational study includes data on the presence and type of food retail in a 400 m buffer surrounding public and private schools in Recife. We have also described the Health Vulnerability Index (HVI) of census tracts and conducted multivariate analyses.
Results:
through factor analysis, we observed two grouping patterns of food retail. The "diverse food outlets" pattern was positively associated with middle HVI (β 0.14, 95% confidence interval [CI] - 0.11; 0.16) and higher HVI areas (β 0.15, 95%CI - 0.11; 0.17), while "the large food retail chains" pattern was inversely associated with middle HVI (β -0.42, 95% CI - 0.53; -0.30) and high HVI areas (β -0.32, 95%CI - 0.45; -0.18) and positively associated with private schools (β 0.15, 95%CI - 0.030; 0.27).
Conclusion:
the greatest variety in food retail is in high HVI areas, and large food retail chains prevail around private schools, especially in low HVI areas.
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