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Socio-economic status, neighbourhood food environments and consumption of fruits and vegetables in New York City
Public health nutrition, v 16(7), pp 1197-1205
01 Jul 2013
PMID: 23388104
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Abstract
Objective: Recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption are largely unmet. Lower socio-economic status (SES), neighbourhood poverty and poor access to retail outlets selling healthy foods are thought to predict lower consumption. The objective of the present study was to assess the interrelationships between these risk factors as predictors of fruit and vegetable consumption.
Design: Cross-sectional multilevel analyses of data on fruit and vegetable consumption, socio-demographic characteristics, neighbourhood poverty and access to healthy retail food outlets.
Setting: Survey data from the 2002 and 2004 New York City Community Health Survey, linked by residential zip code to neighbourhood data.
Subjects: Adult survey respondents (n 15 634).
Results: Overall 9.9% of respondents reported eating >= 5 servings of fruits or vegetables in the day prior to the survey. The odds of eating >= 5 servings increased with higher income among women and with higher educational attainment among men and women. Compared with women having less than a high-school education, the OR was 1.12 (95% CI 0.82, 1.55) for high-school graduates, 1.95 (95% CI 1.43, 2.66) for those with some college education and 2.13 (95% CI 1.56, 2.91) for college graduates. The association between education and fruit and vegetable consumption was significantly stronger for women living in lower-v. higher-poverty zip codes (P for interaction < 0.05). The density of healthy food outlets did not predict consumption of fruits or vegetables.
Conclusions: Higher SES is associated with higher consumption of produce, an association that, in women, is stronger for those residing in lower-poverty neighbourhoods.
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- Title
- Socio-economic status, neighbourhood food environments and consumption of fruits and vegetables in New York City
- Creators
- Darby Jack - Columbia UniversityKathryn Neckerman - University of ChicagoOfira Schwartz-Soicher - Columbia UniversityGina S. Lovasi - Columbia UniversityJames Quinn - Columbia UniversityCatherine Richards - Columbia UniversityMichael Bader - American UniversityChristopher Weiss - Columbia UniversityKevin Konty - New York City Department of Health and Mental HygienePeter Arno - New York Medical CollegeDeborah Viola - New York Medical CollegeBonnie Kerker - New York City Department of Health and Mental HygieneAndrew Rundle - Columbia University
- Publication Details
- Public health nutrition, v 16(7), pp 1197-1205
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- 5R01DK079885-02; P60-MD0005-03 / National Institutes of Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA R01DK079885 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000319614800007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84878452791
- Other Identifier
- 991020100186304721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Nutrition & Dietetics
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health