Journal article

Employment status, residential and workplace food environments: Associations with women's eating behaviours

LE Thornton, KE Lamb, K Ball

Health and Place | Published : 2013

Abstract

There 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 assoc..

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

This study was funded by the Australian Research Council (DP0665242) and the National Heart Foundation of Australia (G02M 0658). LET is supported by a Deakin University Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. KB is supported by a NHMRC Principle Research Fellowship, ID#1042442. KEL was supported under a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence grant, ID#1035261, to the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat). Her work was supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program.