Socio-economic patterning of food and drink advertising at public transport stops in Edinburgh, UK.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Outdoor advertisements for food and drink products form a large part of the food environment and they disproportionately promote unhealthy products. However, less is known about the social patterning of such advertisements. The main aim of this study was to explore the socio-economic patterning of food and drink advertising at bus stops in Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh.

Design

Bus stop advertisements were audited to identify food/drink adverts and classify them by food/drink category (i.e. 'advert category'). This data were then linked to area-based deprivation and proximity measures. Neighbourhood deprivation was measured using the bus stop x/y co-ordinates, which were converted to postcodes to identify the matching 2012 deprivation level via the Scottish Ind

SUBMITTER: Robertson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7612707 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature