Pinheiro Anna Christina, Quintiliano-Scarpelli Daiana, Flores Jacqueline Araneda, Álvarez Claudio, Suárez-Reyes Mónica, Palacios José Luis, Quevedo Tito Pizarro, de Oliveira Maria Rita Marques
Carrera de Nutrición y Dietética, Facultad de Medicina-Clinica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago 7610658, Chile.
PhD Program in Nursing, Medical School, São Paulo State University, Botucatu 18618-687, Brazil.
Foods. 2022 Mar 22;11(7):901. doi: 10.3390/foods11070901.
The analysis of the food environment is used to identify areas with gaps in the availability of healthy foods and can be used as a public policy assessment tool. In recent decades, Chile has implemented several strategies and regulations to improve food environments, with encouraging results. Little is known about the scope of these measures in socially vulnerable environments. This study is part of a project that seeks to build an integrated intervention model for healthy school environments in a vulnerable area of Santiago, Chile. The objective of this study was to evaluate the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods around schools and the relationship between it and socioeconomic determinants of the school community in the Chilean context. A cross-sectional study to measure the food environment of informal markets (street food), formal markets (stores), and institutions (schools) was conducted in and around 12 schools (100 m surrounding schools) in a vulnerable urban area of Santiago, Chile. A lack of healthy foods was observed, which was related to some socio-economic determinants and the multidimensional poverty was the most relevant. The diagnosis of food environments around schools can represent an important target for governments to implement policies focused at improving the availability of healthy foods.
对食物环境的分析用于确定健康食品供应存在缺口的区域，并可作为一种公共政策评估工具。近几十年来，智利实施了多项战略和法规来改善食物环境，取得了令人鼓舞的成果。对于这些措施在社会弱势群体环境中的范围，人们了解甚少。本研究是一个项目的一部分，该项目旨在为智利圣地亚哥一个弱势群体聚居区建立一个健康学校环境的综合干预模型。本研究的目的是评估智利学校周边健康和不健康食品的供应情况及其与学校社区社会经济决定因素之间的关系。在智利圣地亚哥一个弱势群体聚居的城市地区的12所学校（学校周边100米范围内）及其周边，开展了一项横断面研究，以测量非正规市场（街头食品）、正规市场（商店）和机构（学校）的食物环境。研究发现健康食品短缺，这与一些社会经济决定因素有关，其中多维贫困最为关键。对学校周边食物环境的诊断可以成为政府实施旨在改善健康食品供应政策的一个重要目标。
