Retail food environment in a Brazilian metropolis over the course of a decade: evidence of restricted availability of healthy foods.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate changes in the retail food environment profile in a Brazilian metropolis over a 10-year period.

Design

An ecological study was conducted in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The addresses of formal food establishments were geocoded and classified according to their sold-food profile. Density changes were analysed according to neighbourhood, population size, income level and geospatial distribution.

Setting

Totally, 468 neighbourhoods in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Participants

Totally, 83 752 formal food establishments registered for operation in any one or more of those years: 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2018.

Results

There was an increase in unhealthy establishments (154 %), followed by mixed (51 %)

SUBMITTER: Justiniano ICS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991744 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature