Within the geography, transportation, and public health communities there has been intense
interest in better understanding the linkages between health outcomes such as obesity rates …

Urban communities are particularly vulnerable to the future demand for food, energy and
water, and this vulnerability is further exacerbated by the onset of climate change at local …

Introduction People can access to healthy food via different modes of transportation, such as
traveling by car, transit, bicycle and foot. We categorize current measures of food …

Understanding the effect of neighborhood facilities on older adults' participation in hobbies
and sports activities can provide solid evidence for effective health promotion policies …

Food desert communities in the US have a widely recognized gap between the demand for
healthy foods and the minimum order size that makes it worthwhile for food purveyors to …

This paper aimed to clarify the association of mid-adolescent dietary practices and
experiences with adult eating behavior and attitudes using individual data from the “Survey …

Food deserts in Chile present a singularity in the context of the Global South. Unlike other
countries where food security is mainly achieved through informal trade, in Chile, weekly …

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The concept of" food deserts" has been widely used in
Western countries as a framework to identify areas with constrained access to fresh and …

Background The development of empirically-grounded policies to change the obesogenic
nature of urban environment has been impeded by limited, inconclusive evidence of the link …

Good urban and transport policymaking requires understanding both calculated/perceived
accessibility to specific destinations and sense of accessibility (residents' overall feelings of …