title: Associations between retail food store exterior advertisements and community demographic and socioeconomic composition.
abstract: This paper examines the association between the prevalence of various types of outdoor food and beverage advertising found on the building exteriors and properties of retail food outlets and community racial/ethnic and socioeconomic composition in a nationwide sample of food outlets in the U.S. Our major finding from multivariable analysis is that food stores in low-income communities have higher prevalence of all food and beverage ads, including those for unhealthy products such as regular soda, controlling for community racial/ethnic composition and other covariates. This adds to growing research pointing to socioeconomic disparities in food and beverage marketing exposure.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Electronic address: zisgor1@uic.edu.
authors.forename: Zeynep
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Isgor
authors.affiliation: Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health and Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Electronic address: powelll@uic.edu.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Powell
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Electronic address: lrimkus@uic.edu.
authors.forename: Leah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rimkus
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics and Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Electronic address: fjc@uic.edu.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chaloupka
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000329:Advertising / Q000379:methods*; D001628:Beverages / Q000191:economics*; D003132:Commerce / Q000191:economics*; D000072001:Diet, Healthy; D005006:Ethnicity; D005502:Food / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D040541:Marketing; D011203:Poverty; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Community socioeconomic and demographic factors; Exterior advertisement; Food and beverage advertisement; Outdoor advertising; Retail food store