The community and consumer food environment and children's diet: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While there is a growing body of research on food environments for children, there has not been a published comprehensive review to date evaluating food environments outside the home and school and their relationship with diet in children. The purpose of this paper is to review evidence on the influence of the community and consumer nutrition environments on the diet of children under the age of 18 years.

Methods

Our search strategy included a combination of both subject heading searching as well as natural language, free-text searching. We searched nine databases (MEDLINE, Web of Science, CINAHL, Embase, Scopus, ProQuest Public Health, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, and GEOBASE) for papers published between 1995 and July 2013. Study designs were included if th

SUBMITTER: Engler-Stringer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4048041 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature