What North American retail food environment indices miss in Guatemala: Cultural considerations for the study of place and health

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• Alternative Title:
  Appl Geogr
• Personal Author:
  Chuvileva, Yulia E. ; Manangan, Arie ; Chew, Aiken ; Rutherford, George ; Barillas-Basterrechea, Marcela ; Barnoya, Joaquín ; Breysse, Patrick N. ; Blanck, Heidi ; Liburd, Leandris
• Description:
  We evaluated the cross-context validity and equivalence of the US- and Canada-originated Retail Food Environment Index (RFEI) and modified RFEI (mRFEI) against a retail food environment dataset from the indigenous-majority city of Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. The RFEI/mRFEI failed to identify 77% of retailers and misclassified the healthiness of 42% of the remaining retailers in Xela, inaccurately labeling the city a food swamp. The RFEI/mRFEI are not currently suitable for mapping retail food environments in places like Quetzaltenango. Alternative functional and temporal classifications of retail food environments may provide measures with greater contextual fit, highlighting important cultural considerations for the study of place and dietary health.
• Keywords:
  Guatemala Latin America Modified Retail Food Environment Index Retail Food Environment Retail Food Environment Index
• Source:
  Appl Geogr. 164
• Pubmed ID:
  38532832
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10964928
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  164
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:96591983b52f29f9e30b9227eb09a57ae7ae72a6a498009520405534d052179ba70082b5618d68b511e38809013bb379920d7a4ed9f3fabcaf41dfe9eda95ee2
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