Association of neighborhood characteristics with the location and type of food stores
dc.contributor.author | Moore, L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Diez Roux, Ana V. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-01-24T20:03:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-01-24T20:03:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Am J Public Health. 2006;96(2):325-331 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57753> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57753 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objectives: We investigated associations between local food environment and neighborhood racial/ethnic and socioeconomic composition. Methods: Poisson regression was used to examine the association of food stores and liquor stores with racial/ethnic composition and income in selected census tracts in North Carolina, Maryland, and New York. Results: Predominantly minority and racially mixed neighborhoods had more than twice as many grocery stores as predominantly White neighborhoods (for predominantly Black tracts, adjusted stores per population ratio [SR] = 2.7; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.2, 3.2; and for mixed tracts, SR = 2.2; 95% CI = 1.9, 2.7) and half as many supermarkets (for predominantly Black tracts, SR = 0.5; 95% CI = 0.3, 0.7; and for mixed tracts, SR = 0.7; 95% CI = 0.5, 1.0, respectively). Low-income neighborhoods had 4 times as many grocery stores as the wealthiest neighborhoods (SR = 4.3; 95% CI = 3.6, 5.2) and half as many supermarkets (SR = 0.5; 95% CI = 0.3, 0.8). In general, poorer areas and non-White areas also tended to have fewer fruit and vegetable markets, bakeries, specialty stores, and natural food stores. Liquor stores were more common in poorer than in richer areas (SR = 1.3; 95% CI = 1.0, 1.6). Conclusions: Local food environments vary substantially by neighborhood racial/ethnic and socioeconomic composition and may contribute to disparities in health | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1964744 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Journal of Public Health | en_US |
dc.title | Association of neighborhood characteristics with the location and type of food stores | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Public Health | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Epidemiology, Department of | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57753/1/MOORE_2006_AJPH_FoodStores.pdf | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Epidemiology, Department of (SPH) |
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