Abstract
The objective of this study was to identify the food vendor distribution profile of the city of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, and investigate its association with the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of different municipal regions. This descriptive, cross-sectional study obtained the location of food vendors from secondary data from different institutional sources. The density of different types of food vendors per 1,000 inhabitants in each municipal weighted area was calculated. The Kruskal-Wallis test compared the mean density of food vendors and the weighted income areas. The lowest-income regions had the lowest density of butchers, snack bars, supermarkets, bakeries/pastry shops, natural product stores, juice bars, and convenience stores. The identification of these areas may encourage the creation of public policies that facilitate healthy food startups and/or maintenance of healthy food vendors, especially in the lowest-income regions.
Highlights
Obesity has reached epidemic levels according to the World Health Organization (WHO)
A nationwide Brazilian survey conducted in 2008-2009 found adult overweight and obesity rates of 34.2% and 14.8%, respectively; adolescent overweight and obesity rates of 15.6% and 4.9%, respectively; and child overweight and obesity rates of 19.2% and 14.3%, respectively 1
Florianópolis has a total of 2,555 food vendors, of which 1,202 sell healthy foods, 873 sell unhealthy foods, and 480 sell healthy and unhealthy foods
Summary
Obesity has reached epidemic levels according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A nationwide Brazilian survey conducted in 2008-2009 found adult overweight and obesity rates of 34.2% and 14.8%, respectively; adolescent (ages 10 to 19 years) overweight and obesity rates of 15.6% and 4.9%, respectively; and child (ages 5 to 9 years) overweight and obesity rates of 19.2% and 14.3%, respectively 1. In 2013, 33.2% and 15.4% of adults were overweight and obese, respectively 2. In 2012 18.9% and 8.5% of adolescents aged 13 to 15 years were overweight and obese, respectively 3; and 34.2% of children and adolescents aged 7 to 14 years were overweight or obese 4. Health problems with complex etiologies, such as obesity, involve individual and environmental characteristics 5. Changes in food patterns, including higher consumption of processed foods with high sugar, sodium, and fat contents, along with a sedentary lifestyle are the underlying causes of the overweight and obesity epidemic 1
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