Neighborhood Economic Changes After the Great Recession and Home Food Environments.

ABSTRACT: Objective. Home food environments are important contexts for children and their food intake. It is unknown whether neighborhood economic context plays a role in explaining the association between a national economic crisis and children's home food environments. This study attempts to investigate neighborhood economic changes after the Great Recession and their associations with home food environments. Method. Using data from the Geographic Research on Wellbeing survey (2012-2013), we conducted a series of logistic regression analyses to examine the association between neighborhood changes after the Great Recession and home food environments. Results. Findings showed that neighborhood economic changes after the Great Recession were concentrated in poor neighborhoods. In

SUBMITTER: Kim Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10782843 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature