Obesity is a major public health issue, affecting both developed and developing societies.
Obesity increases the risk for heart disease, stroke, some cancers, and type II diabetes …

Obesity is a topic on which many views are strongly held in the absence of scientific
evidence to support those views, and some views are strongly held despite evidence to …

Food desert studies attempt to identify geographic areas in which people lack access to
sources of healthy food. While academic and policy research often defines access to food …

Objective Unhealthy food environments are disproportionally concentrated in
neighborhoods with clustering of racial/ethnic minorities and poverty. This disparity has …

Identifying the geographic units with restricted access to intra-urban parks has become a hot
issue in transport studies. Previous literature has examined the social inequalities of park …

Objectives. We examined associations of household socioeconomic status (SES) and food
security with children's oral health outcomes. Methods. We analyzed 2007 and 2008 US …

This paper investigated the role of grocery store prices in structuring food access for low-
income households in Portland, Oregon. We conducted a detailed healthful foods market …

Objective: To compare the associations between food environment at the individual level,
socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity rates in two cities: Seattle and Paris. Methods …

Since the mid-1990s, the concept of the 'urban food desert'has been extensively applied to
deprived neighbourhoods in European and North American cities. Food deserts are usually …

This article integrates community gardens and farmers' markets into a spatial analysis of
food deserts in the City of Edmonton, Canada. Our results show that community gardens and …