Food Vendors and the Obesogenic Food Environment of an Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya: a Descriptive and Spatial Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Food environments of urban informal settlements are likely drivers of dietary intake among residents of such settlements. Yet, few attempts have been made to describe them. The objective of this study was to characterize the food environment of a densely-populated informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya according to the obesogenic properties and spatial distribution of its food vendors. In July-August 2019, we identified food vendors in the settlement and classified them into obesogenic risk categories based on the types of food that they sold. We calculated descriptive statistics and assessed clustering according to obesogenic risk using Ripley's K function. Foods most commonly sold among the 456 vendors in the analytic sample were sweets/confectionary (29% of vendors), raw vegetables (28%)

SUBMITTER: Busse KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9918652 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature