Associations between the Neighbourhood Food Environment, Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status and Diet Quality in Canadian Adults

High quality diet is integral for maintaining health and preventing chronic diseases. Diet quality has many determinants that interact across the intra-individual, inter-individual, physical environment, and policy levels of influence. This thesis presents a novel method to create Canada’s Food Guide serving equivalents in the Canadian Diet History Questionnaire II nutrient database for the purpose of deriving the Canadian Healthy Eating Index (C-HEI). The C-HEI was used as a measure of diet quality in an analytical study investigating the potential independent and joint effects of the neighbourhood food environment and neighbourhood socioeconomic status on diet quality of adults living in Calgary, Alberta. The density of all neighbourhood food destinations, but not neighbourhood socioeconomic status independently or jointly with neighbourhood food destination density, plays a small role in diet quality of Calgary adults. With additional research, these findings may help inform population level interventions aimed at improving diet quality for all Canadians.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MSc)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Community Health Sciences

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Graduate Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• McInerney, Maria

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• McCormack, Gavin

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Csizmadi, Ilona
• Friedenreich, Christine

• Education--Health
• Public and Social Welfare
• Social Structure and Development
• Urban and Regional Planning
• Epidemiology
• Nutrition
• Public Health

Statement dc:rights

• University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25035

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ucalgary.scholaris.ca:11023/2848