Food Environments around American Indian Reservations: A Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the food environments experienced by American Indians living on tribal lands in California.

Methods

Geocoded statewide food business data were used to define and categorize existing food vendors into healthy, unhealthy, and intermediate composite categories. Distance to and density of each of the composite food vendor categories for tribal lands and nontribal lands were compared using multivariate linear regression. Quantitative results were concurrently triangulated with qualitative data from in-depth interviews with tribal members (n = 24).

Results

After adjusting for census tract-level urbanicity and per capita income, results indicate there were significantly fewer healthy food outlets per square mile for tribal areas compared to non-tribal

SUBMITTER: Chodur GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4999270 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature