Background Many studies have examined the relationship between the food environment and health-related outcomes, but fewer consider the integrity of measures used to assess …
The food environment is a critical place in the food system to implement interventions to support sustainable diets and address the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and …
K Cooksey-Stowers, MB Schwartz… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper investigates the effect of food environments, characterized as food swamps, on adult obesity rates. Food swamps have been described as areas with a high-density of …
This review summarises the evidence for inequalities in community and consumer nutrition environments from ten previous review articles, and also assesses the evidence for the …
Aims This study aims to model multiple health outcomes and behaviors in terms of the updated, refined, and validated county compactness/sprawl measures. Methods Multiple …
An unhealthy diet is a major risk factor for chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer,,–. Limited access to healthy food options may …
J Jiao, AV Moudon, J Ulmer… - … journal of public …, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We explored new ways to identify food deserts. Methods. We estimated physical and economic access to supermarkets for 5 low-income groups in Seattle–King County …
C Miewald, E McCann - Antipode, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This paper argues that food should be a more central focus of critical geographical research into urban poverty and that the concept of “foodscape” can contribute to this literature. We …
Context The existing evidence on food environments and diet is inconsistent, potentially because of heterogeneity in measures used to assess diet. The objective of this review …