Strategical Location of Convenience Stores Around High Schools for Quick Snacks
Improving students' eating habits is a health promotion priority given the rate of obesity among Canadian youth. Since students spend a substantial amount of their time en route to schools, there has been a growing interest on the way food environment has shaped dietary outcomes of high school students. The British Colombia stakeholders have introduced different provincial initiatives to improve access to healthy food. For example, Sip Smart B.C. Vegetable Snack Program, Action Schools, B.C and School Fruit initiatives have been launched to improve access to healthy nutrition as well as reducing exposure to unhealthy food. Nevertheless, strategic location of convenience stores can assist students to have access to healthy nutrition. In Canada, 31% of Canadian high schools are located approximately one kilometer of a convenience store. (Jennifer, & Meghan, 2012). Despite the importance of the strategic location of convenience stores to the high schools in British Columbia, nevertheless, there are still dearth of studies that investigate the strategic location of convenience stores around high schools at Kelowna in British Columbia. The study attempts to fill the gap by providing insights regarding the methods convenience stores around high schools assist students having quick snacks.
Method of Data Collection
The study collects data from the clerks of convenience stores located around the Rutland Secondary School and Kelowna Secondary School at Kelowna in British Columbia. The Rutland Secondary School is one of the schools at the Central Okanagan School District located at Kelowna in British Columbia, and the school offers different academic programs. The food environment refers to convenience to obtain food, and the convenience includes availability and accessibility of snacks within the school environment. As being revealed in Fig 1, the study uses the GIS (Geographic Information System) to map convenience stores near the Rutland Secondary School by using the Google Map.
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