Social inequalities in the surrounding areas of food deserts and food swamps in a Brazilian metropolis [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background Food deserts are neighborhoods with little or no access to healthy food, whereas food swamps are neighborhoods where unhealthy food options prevail over healthy ones.
Olivia Souza Honório +7 more
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Ecological study of the association between socioeconomic inequality and food deserts and swamps around schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Previous research suggests that unhealthy community food environments around schools contribute to unhealthy eating habits and negative health outcomes among the youth.
Bernardo Andretti +6 more
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International Journal of Librarianship, 2020 Access to healthy, varied and affordable foods has a great impact on individual dietary patterns and diet-related health outcomes. Consequently, there is an increasing interest in identifying food deserts - areas with poor access to supermarkets or other
Xue Luo
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Food deserts exposure, density of fast-food restaurants, and park access: Exploring the association of food and recreation environments with obesity and diabetes using global and local regression models. [PDF]
PLoS ONETo prevent obesity and diabetes environmental interventions such as eliminating food deserts, restricting proliferation of food swamps, and improving park access are essential.
Jae In Oh, KangJae Jerry Lee, Aaron Hipp
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Are Food Deserts Also Play Deserts? [PDF]
J Urban Health, 2016 Although food deserts are areas that lack easy access to food outlets and considered a barrier to a healthy diet and a healthy weight among residents, food deserts typically comprise older urban areas which may have many parks and street configurations that could facilitate more physical activity.
Cohen DA +3 more
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The effect of food deserts on gynecologic cancer survival [PDF]
Gynecologic Oncology ReportsObjective: Living in a food desert is a known negative health risk, with recent literature finding an associated higher mortality in patients with cancers. Gynecologic cancers have not specifically been studied.
Nicole Lugo Santiago +8 more
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Using Social Media to Predict Food Deserts in the United States: Infodemiology Study of Tweets
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2022 BackgroundThe issue of food insecurity is becoming increasingly important to public health practitioners because of the adverse health outcomes and underlying racial disparities associated with insufficient access to healthy foods.
Nekabari Sigalo +2 more
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Evaluation of a Mobile Farmer's Market Aimed at Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Food Deserts: A Pilot Study to Determine Evaluation Feasibility [PDF]
Health Equity, 2018 Purpose: In November 2015, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank implemented a pilot phase of the Green Grocer mobile market, a program aimed at improving access to locally sourced fresh foods in low-resource neighborhoods. We conducted an evaluation of
Tiffany L. Gary-Webb +6 more
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SPATIAL DIFFERENCES IN FRESH VEGETABLE SPENDING: A CASE STUDY IN GUILFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020 This paper investigates the spatial differences in fresh vegetable spending in Guilford County, North Carolina. We create a geo-coded spatial-temporal database for both human factors and natural factors to understand why food deserts have become a ...
H. Miao +6 more
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European Spatial Research and Policy, 2023 The article presents the development of food retail in Poland in comparison with global trends, characterised by the tendency to replace small traditional food stores with large-format stores, such as supermarkets and hypermarkets.
Agnieszka Rochmińska
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