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The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1990
Abstract Although occupational therapists try to help their wheelchair-bound clients reenter the community or maintain independence, many facilities’ noncompliance with accessibility standards makes such planning difficult. In the present study, a survey was used to investigate the wheelchair accessibility of 20 grocery and ...
L, McClain, C, Todd
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Abstract Although occupational therapists try to help their wheelchair-bound clients reenter the community or maintain independence, many facilities’ noncompliance with accessibility standards makes such planning difficult. In the present study, a survey was used to investigate the wheelchair accessibility of 20 grocery and ...
L, McClain, C, Todd
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Food Accessibility and Food Choice
Archives of General Psychiatry, 1980A set of naturalistic observations was conducted to examine Schachter's theory that obese individuals are more responsive to external food cues than persons of normal weight. During six days of observation at a large hospital cafeteria, experimenters manipulated the accessibility of high- and low-calorie desserts.
A W, Meyers, A J, Stunkard, M, Coll
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2013
The Importance of Local Food Systems: A little known fact is that, generally speaking, food consumed in the United States travels 1,500 miles from the farms that grow our food to the forks that serve it to us. Also not well known, is that in 2006, the value of food imported into the United States exceeded the value of food exported – challenging our ...
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The Importance of Local Food Systems: A little known fact is that, generally speaking, food consumed in the United States travels 1,500 miles from the farms that grow our food to the forks that serve it to us. Also not well known, is that in 2006, the value of food imported into the United States exceeded the value of food exported – challenging our ...
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Income Segregation and Access to Healthy Food
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020Differences in diet quality across socioeconomic groups are a key contributor to health gradient. An agent-based model was developed to explore how income segregation affects food access for poor households under idealized circumstances where the poor have the same knowledge of and preferences for healthy food as the nonpoor.The agent-based model ...
Shyam S. Gouri Suresh +1 more
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Measuring Food Access and Food Deserts for Policy Purposes†
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2014AbstractPolicymakers have dedicated increasing attention to whether Americans have access to healthful food. As a result, various methods for measuring food store access at the national level have been developed to identify areas that lack access. However, these methods face definitional, data, and methodological limitations. The focus on neighborhoods
Michele Ver Ploeg +2 more
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Food prices, access to food outlets and child weight
Economics & Human Biology, 2009This study examines the importance of food prices and restaurant and food store outlet availability for child body mass index (BMI). We use the 1998, 2000 and 2002 waves of the child-mother merged files from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth combined with fruit and vegetable and fast food price data obtained from the American
Lisa M, Powell, Yanjun, Bao
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Effects of mobility and location on food access
Health & Place, 2009Access to healthy food has become an important area of investigation for researchers interested in health disparities and inequalities. The debate about the existence and characteristics of 'food deserts' has increased the interest in food availability and equity in health research.
Coveney, John David +1 more
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Food Stamp Program Access. [PDF]
, 2001 Discusses effective access to the program by people who are eligible for it, noting that at any given time, only 59 percent of those who were eligible participated in 1998. Furthermore, this number has been declining since the passage of welfare reform legislation in 1996. Although there are many reasons for not participating, the most common reason is
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Spatial access to food: Retiring the food desert metaphor
Physiology & Behavior, 2018The food desert metaphor has been widely used over the past few decades as a way to identify regions as being at risk for having little or no access to healthy food. While the simplicity of the metaphor is attractive, this article argues that its usefulness to researchers interested in understanding the relationship between the geography of healthy ...
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Physical accessibility of food
2018The case study focuses on the analysis of economic and physical accessibility and availability of food in the Czech Republic. Food security includes three main pillars - availability, access, and utilization. (Duram, 2011) There is precisely examined the area of access to food, in terms of affordability and in terms of the possibility of physical ...
Lukášková, Eva, Pitrová, Kateřina
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