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Urban physical food environments drive dietary behaviours in Ghana and Kenya : a photovoice study
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(2021) Urban physical food environments drive dietary behaviours in Ghana and Kenya : a photovoice study. Health & Place, 71 . 102647. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102647 ISSN 1353-8292.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.10264...
Abstract
We identified factors in the physical food environment that influence dietary behaviours among low-income dwellers in three African cities (Nairobi, Accra, Ho). We used Photovoice with 142 males/females (≥13 years). In the neighbourhood environment, poor hygiene, environmental sanitation, food contamination and adulteration were key concerns. Economic access was perceived as a major barrier to accessing nutritionally safe and healthy foods. Home gardening supplemented household nutritional needs, particularly in Nairobi. Policies to enhance food safety in neighbourhood environments are required. Home gardening, food pricing policies and social protection schemes could reduce financial barriers to safe and healthy diets.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine T Technology > TX Home economics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Diet -- Ghana, Diet -- Kenya, Food habits -- Health aspects, Urban agriculture, Food -- Safety measures -- Ghana, Food -- Safety measures -- Kenya, Nutrition, Food handling, Participant observation -- Ghana, Participant observation -- Kenya | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Health & Place | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Pergamon | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1353-8292 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Article Number: | 102647 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102647 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 August 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 August 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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