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Employment status, residential and workplace food environments: associations with women's eating behaviours
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posted on 2013-11-01, 00:00 authored by Lukar ThorntonLukar Thornton, Karen Lamb, Kylie BallKylie BallThere remains a lack of consistent evidence linking food environments with eating behaviours. Studies to date have largely ignored the way different individuals interact with their local food environment and have primarily focussed on exposures within the residential neighbourhood without consideration of exposures around the workplace, for example. In this study we firstly examine whether associations between the residential food environment and eating behaviours differ by employment status and, secondly, whether food environments near employed women's workplaces are more strongly associated with dietary behaviours than food environments near home. Employment status did not modify the associations between residential food environments and eating behaviours, however results showed that having access to healthy foods near the workplace was associated with healthier food consumption. Policies focused on supportive environments should consider commercial areas as well as residential neighbourhoods.
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Health & placeVolume
24Pagination
80 - 89Publisher
Elsevier BVLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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1353-8292eISSN
1873-2054Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2013, ElsevierUsage metrics
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