Deprivation matters: understanding associations between neighbourhood deprivation unhealthy food outlets unhealthy dietary behaviours and child body size using structural equation modelling

摘要

Children residing in neighbourhoods of high deprivation are more likely to have poorer health, including excess body size. While the availability of unhealthy food outlets are increasingly considered important for excess child body size, less is known about how neighbourhood deprivation, unhealthy food outlets and unhealthy dietary behaviours are interlinked.