Food Environment Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
A Systematic Scoping Review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23348489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Turner (0000-0002-8091-1108, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, corresponding author), Sofia Kalamatianou (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Adam Drewnowski (0000-0002-2892-9888, University of Washington), Bharati Kulkarni (0000-0003-0636-318X, National Institute of Nutrition), Sanjay Kinra (0000-0001-6690-4625, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Suneetha Kadiyala (0000-0002-9101-1471, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 387-397 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Advances in Nutrition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2161-8313 • E-ISSN: 2156-5376 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/advances/nmz031 |
| PMID | 31079142 |
| OpenAlex | W2944238144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 93 |
| References cited | 78 |
Food environment research is increasingly gaining prominence in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, in the absence of a systematic review of the literature, little is known about the emerging body of evidence from these settings. This systematic scoping review aims to address this gap. A systematic search of 6 databases was conducted in December 2017 and retrieved 920 records. In total, 70 peer-reviewed articles met the eligibility criteria and were included. Collectively, articles spanned 22 LMICs, including upper-middle-income countries (n = 49, 70%) and lower-middle-income countries (n = 18, 26%). No articles included low-income countries. Articles featured quantitative (n = 45, 64%), qualitative (n = 17, 24%), and mixed-method designs (n = 11, 8%). Studies analyzed the food environment at national, community, school, and household scales. Twenty-three articles (55%) assessed associations between food environment exposures and outcomes of interest, including diets (n = 14), nutrition status (n = 13), and health (n = 1). Food availability was associated with dietary outcomes at the community and school scales across multiple LMICs, although associations varied by vendor type. Evidence regarding associations between the food environment and nutrition and health outcomes was inconclusive. The paucity of evidence from high-quality studies is a severe limitation, highlighting the critical need for improved study designs and standardized methods and metrics. Future food environment research must address low-income and lower-middle-income countries, and include the full spectrum of dietary, nutrition, and health outcomes. Improving the quality of food environment research will be critical to the design of feasible, appropriate, and effective interventions to improve public health nutrition in LMICs.
Business · Developing country · Economic growth · Environmental health · Low and middle income countries · MEDLINE · Political science · Systematic review · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Medicine · Nutritional Studies and Diet · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Informality in food environments
Inequities in Children’s Food Environment
Implicações das relações de gênero nos ambientes alimentares domésticos saudáveis
Advancing alcohol research in low-income and middle-income countries
Pântanos Alimentares E a Disponibilidade De Produtos Ultraprocessados No Ambiente Alimentar De Varejo Em Uma Cidade De Baixa Renda No Brasil
The Retail Food Sector and Indigenous Peoples in High-Income Countries
Barriers and Promoters of Healthy Eating from the Perspective of Food Environment Perception
Socio-demographic patterning of the individual-level double burden of malnutrition in a rural population in South India
Overweight and obesity of school-age children in El Salvador according to two international systems
Changes in urbanicity and household availability of and proximity to food vendors from 2004 to 2020 in a rural district of northwestern Bangladesh
Basic human values drive food choice decision-making in different food environments of Kenya and Tanzania
Análise espacial do excesso de peso infantil no Brasil e sua relação com determinantes macro, meso e microambientais
The processed food revolution in African food systems and the double burden of malnutrition
Food Environment Typology
A mixed-methods exploration of the food retail environment of a low-income area of Montevideo, Uruguay
School health and nutrition environments
Street Food and Takeaway Food Purchasing Patterns in Bosnia and Herzegovina
School Food Environment in Urban Zambia
Concordance of Dietary Diversity and Moderation Among 28,787 Mother‐Child Dyads in 11 Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
Resilience and vulnerabilities of urban food environments in the Asia‐Pacific region
Changes in the Retail Food Environment in Mexican Cities and Their Association with Blood Pressure Outcomes
Exploring drivers of food choice among PLHIV and their families in a peri-urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Food purchase diversity is associated with market food diversity and diets of children and their mothers but not fathers in rural Tanzania
Characterizing Retail Food Environments in Peri-Urban Pakistan during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Type, density, and healthiness of food-outlets in a university foodscape
Food Environment in and around Primary School Children’s Schools and Neighborhoods in Two Urban Settings in Kenya
Healthfulness of street food outlets around public schools in Mexico
Driving Research and Advocacy for Healthy Infant and Toddler Diets
Determinants of food retail outlet choice in an urban food environment
Food Safety Practices and Behavior Drivers in Traditional Food Markets in Ethiopia
What influences Indian primary school children’s food behaviors? - Perceptions of children, mothers and teachers
Socioeconomic inequalities in lifestyle risk factors across low- and middle-income countries
The Food and Health Environment in Junior Secondary Schools in Urban Burkina Faso
An analysis of neglected and underutilised species integration in UK alternative food networks
Junk Food
Towards global health equity
Association between density of convenience and small grocery stores with diet quality in adults living in Mexico City
Commentary
How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect food environment, food purchase, and fish consumption among low-income urban households in Bangladesh—A path analysis
Unveiling the obesogenic neighborhood food environment factors and typologies in Tianjin, China
Characterizing the food and physical activity environments of selected public schools in Region IV-A, Philippines
Measured and perceived food environment influences on women’s nutritional health in marginalized areas of northern Mexico
Factors Influencing Adolescents' Dietary Behaviors in the School and Home Environment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Food access, domestic environments, and dietary quality of low-middle income Chilean children during the Covid-19 pandemic
The influence of the urban food environment on diet, nutrition and health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries
Obesogenicity of food in the informal food retail environment of low- and middle-income countries
What North American retail food environment indices miss in Guatemala
Spatial accessibility to healthy food in context
Acesso a alimentos frescos em áreas urbanas vulneráveis
Access to fresh food in vulnerable urban areas
Spatial typology for food system analysis
Drivers of food acquisition practices in the food environment of peri-urban Hyderabad, India
Influence of food environment on ultra-processed drinks consumption among an economically vulnerable population in a metropolitan area in Brazil
The interplay between the market food environment and barriers to healthy diets for women in rural Bihar, India
Assessing Market Food Diversity of Three Food Environments of Nairobi, Kenya, Using Spatial and Descriptive Analyses
Food Vendors and the Obesogenic Food Environment of an Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
Food security from free collection of foods
Food environments and obesity
Dietary patterns and their socio-demographic correlates in the context of migration and urbanisation demonstrate nutrition transitions in South Africa
Neighbourhood, school and home food environment associations with dietary behaviours in Hong Kong adolescents
Conceptualising food environments as social activity spaces
Food system interventions in urban environments
Urbanizing food environments in Africa
Association of neighborhood food availability with housing price in inner Changsha, China before and after the Covid-19 epidemic
Estimates and trends of zero vegetable or fruit consumption among children aged 6–23 months in 64 countries
Drivers of food acquisition practices among adolescents in suburban food environments of Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Nutritional Quality of Children’s Menus Offered by Fast-Food and Traditional-Food Chain Restaurants in Costa Rica
Women's experiences of the food environment and their association with fruit and vegetable intake
Convenience as a dimension of food environments
Capturing the moment
Comércio de alimentos para consumo imediato no entorno do Programa Academia da Saúde
Sources of food ready to consume around the Health Academy Program units
Dietary health perceptions and sources of nutritional knowledge in an urban food environment
Perceived neighbourhood food access is associated with consumption of animal-flesh food, fruits and vegetables among mothers and young children in peri-urban Cambodia
Urban school neighbourhoods dominated by unhealthy food retailers and advertisements in Greater Tunis
Food environments in the Pacific region and efforts to improve them
Effectiveness of school-based nutrition interventions in sub-Saharan Africa
Food environments provide availability and physical access to vegetables in urban Benin and Mali
Between the city and the farm
Development and psychometric properties of a questionnaire on adolescents’ home food environment
A qualitative inquiry of food insecurity in Belize
Household food insecurity and its impact on child and adolescent health outcomes in Western high-income countries
Scientific research on food environments in Brazil
Digital food environment of a Brazilian metropolis
Food environment research is needed to improve nutrition and well-being in Asia and the Pacific
Weird and non-consensual food deserts and swamps
Mapping food and physical activity environments in low- and middle-income countries
Relationship Between School Food Environment and Eating Behaviors of Primary School Children in Dodoma
Drivers of Food Choice among Children and Caregivers in Post-earthquake Nepal
Food Environment Lens
Women Eat More Rice and Banana
Drivers of food choice among women living in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Factors shaping adolescent snack choices in urban Bangladeshi schools
Healthy casetas
Nutrition Transition and the Global Diabetes Epidemic
Measures of the Consumer Food Store Environment
Concepts and critical perspectives for food environment research
The community and consumer food environment and children’s diet
Measuring the Food Environment and its Effects on Obesity in the United States
Availability, affordability, and consumption of fruits and vegetables in 18 countries across income levels
Measuring the Food Environment
Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews
Food environment and policies in private schools in Kolkata, India
Guatemalan school food environment
The role of trade and investment liberalization in the sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages market
Obesogenic television food advertising to children in Malaysia
Food deserts and nutritional risk in paraguay
Using Mixed Methods to Describe a Spatially Dynamic Food Environment in Rural Dominican Republic
WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative
Changing Places, Changing Plates? A Binational Comparison of Barriers and Facilitators to Healthful Eating Among Central American Communities
Individual and environmental factors associated for overweight in urban population of Brazil
Development and evaluation of a food environment survey in three urban environments of Kunming, China
Association between perceived neighbourhood characteristics, physical activity and diet quality
Did HealthKick, a randomised controlled trial primary school nutrition intervention improve dietary quality of children in low-income settings in South Africa
Association between full service and fast food restaurant density, dietary intake and overweight/obesity among adults in Delhi, India
Snack food advertising in stores around public schools in Guatemala
The role of the local retail food environment in fruit, vegetable and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Brazil
Food, alcohol and cigarette availability and consumption in Almaty, Kazakstan
Impacts of fast food and the food retail environment on overweight and obesity in China
Is the school food environment conducive to healthy eating in poorly resourced South African schools
The school environment and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among Guatemalan adolescents
Level of implementation of best practice policies for creating healthy food environments
Evidence-informed process to identify policies that will promote a healthy food environment in the Pacific Islands
Measures of the food environment
The local food environment and diet
Characterization of the School Neighborhood Food Environment in Three Mexican Cities
Globalization and Food Prestige among Indian Adolescents
Fruit and Vegetable Purchasing Patterns and Preferences in South Delhi
Producing Markets, Producing People
Making unhealthy places
Food, eating and body image in the lives of low socioeconomic status rural Mexican women living in Queretaro State, Mexico
Neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics and differences in the availability of healthy food stores and restaurants in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Investigating Environmental Determinants of Diet, Physical Activity, and Overweight among Adults in Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Local Food Environment and Body Mass Index among the Urban Poor in Accra, Ghana
Stakeholder perspectives on national policy for regulating the school food environment in Mexico
Neighborhood socioeconomics, food environment and land use determinants of public health
A geo-big data approach to intra-urban food deserts
Degree of food processing of household acquisition patterns in a Brazilian urban area is related to food buying preferences and perceived food environment
What influences urban Indian secondary school students' food consumption? – A qualitative study
Pregnant in a foreign city
Evaluating the use of in-store measures in retail food stores and restaurants in Brazil
Screening for frailty in older adults using a self-reported instrument
Exploring Perceptions of the Food Environment Amongst Congolese, Somalis and Zimbabweans Living in Cape Town
Local Notions of Healthy Eating and National Dietary Guidelines
Food environment of fruits and vegetables in the territory of the Health Academy Program
Built environment and social environment
Food deserts or food swamps
Are There Food Deserts in Rainforest Cities
| Unique citing works | 93 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 81 |