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ABSTRACT
This study aimed to describe the community food environment of a Brazilian metropolis using secondary data from 2015. To construct this database, the State and Municipal Secretariat were asked to provide information on 12 types of food sales establishment in the city of Belo Horizonte. Establishments that were not common between the two databases were checked using the Google Street View database. The final database consisted of establishments that were virtually checked as well as existing establishments in the two secondary databases. The establishments included in the final database were categorized as healthy, unhealthy, or mixed according to the predominance of food sales. Unhealthy establishments are the most available in the food environment. Lower income areas have a lower availability of all types of establishment, particularly healthy ones. As income increases, there is an increase in the availability of mixed and unhealthy establishments. Understanding the food environment of cities is important for decision makers to identify places where the implementation of public equipment for food safety and nutrition is necessary.
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Luana Lara Rocha
Luana Lara Rocha PhD student in Public Health at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Master’s degree in Health Sciences - Child and Adolescent Health from the Medical School (UFMG). Nutritionist (UFMG). Member of the Group of Studies, Research and Practices in Food Environment and Health (GEPPAAS).
Ariene Silva do Carmo
Ariene Silva do Carmo Technician at the General Coordination of Food and Nutrition (CGAN) of the Ministry of Health (Brazil). PhD in Health Sciences-Child and Adolescent Health from the Medical School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Nutritionist (UFMG) and Master in Health and Nursing (UFMG). Member of the Group for Interventions in Nutrition (GIN); Group of Study, Research and Practice in Education, Food and Nutrition (GEAN); Center for Studies in Food and Nutrition in Life Cycles (NEANC); Group for Studies in Nutritional Epidemiology (GREEN); and the Group of Study, Research and Practice in Food Environment and Health (GEPPAAS).
Mariana Zogbi Jardim
Mariana Zogbi Jardim PhD student in Health Sciences - Child and Adolescent Health at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Master’s degree in Nutrition and Health from the Graduate Program in Nutrition and Health (UFMG). Nutritionist from Universidade Federal Fluminense. Member of the group of Studies, Research and Practices in Food Environment and Health (GEPPAAS).
Bruna Albuquerque Leme
Bruna Albuquerque Leme Nutritionist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso
Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso Nutritionist from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Master’s in Collective Health from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and PhD in Public Health at the National School of Public Health Sérgio Arouca (ENSP) of FIOCRUZ, institution in which she is a researcher in Public Health developing its activities in the Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Health. She was Visiting Scholar at Dornsife School of Public Health - Drexel University during 2015. She was coordinator of the Graduate Program of Epidemiology in Public Health of ENSP/FIOCRUZ between 2016 and 2019. She is a researcher of the Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brazil), of the Urban Health in Latin America project (SALURBAL).
Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa
Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa Professor of epidemiology and public health at the Medical School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and leader of the Epidemiology Research Group/Observatory of Urban Health of Belo Horizonte (OSUBH-GPE). Researcher 1B of CNPq, she has a Masters in Public Health (international health and epidemiology) from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) - Bloomberg School of Public Health, PhD from UFMG and post-doctoral studies at JHU. He was president of the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) at the New York Academy of Medicine from 2011 to 2014. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the International Institute for Global Health at the United Nations University (IIGH-UNU) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 2015 to 2019. He is on the Steering Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Urban Health. She coordinates the Hub-Brazil of the Salurbal Project - Urban Health in Latin America funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade
Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade Professor at the Institute of Collective Health and the Graduate Program in Collective Health at the Federal University of Mato Grosso. Researcher at the Urban Health Observatory of Belo Horizonte, School of Medicine - Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). PhD in Public Health, UFMG. Master in Epidemiology, René Rachou Research Center - Fiocruz Minas. Graduated in Statistics from UFMG.
Luana Caroline dos Santos
Luana Caroline dos Santos Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Postgraduate Programs in Nutrition and Health and Health Sciences - Child and Adolescent Health. Nutritionist from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), Specialist in Adolescence from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), with Masters and PhD in Public Health, concentration area Nutrition, from the University of São Paulo (USP). Leader of the Center for Studies in Food and Nutrition in Life Cycles (NEANC). Member of the Group of Study, Research and Practice in Education, Food and Nutrition (GEAN) and the Research Group Interinstitutional Center for Longitudinal Epidemiological Studies in Health (NIELOS). Member of the Scientific Department of Breastfeeding of the Sociedade Mineira de Pediatria.
Larissa Loures Mendes
Larissa Loures Mendes Nutritionist from the Federal University of Ouro Preto. Master’s and PhD in Nursing from the School of Nursing, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Currently, she is an adjunct professor at the Nutrition Department at UFMG, Postgraduate Program in Health Nutrition at UFMG, Postgraduate Program in Child and Adolescent Health at UFMG, and collaborating professor in the Postgraduate Program in Public Health at UFMG. She leads the Group of Studies, Researches and Practices in Food Environment and Health (GEPPAAS).