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Are Food Deserts Also Play Deserts? [PDF]

Journal of 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.
Deborah A Cohen, Tamara Dubowitz, Gerald P Hunter   +2 more
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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, Milene Cristine Pessoa, Lucia Helena Almeida Gratão, Luana Lara Rocha, Inês Rugani Ribeiro de Castro, Daniela Silva Canella, Paula Martins Horta, Larissa Loures Mendes   +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, Letícia Oliveira Cardoso, Olivia Souza Honório, Paulo César Pereira de Castro Junior, Letícia Ferreira Tavares, Isabela da Costa Gaspar da Silva, Larissa Loures Mendes   +6 more
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Food Deserts or Food Swamps?

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 environment in Brazil: food deserts and food swamps in large urban cities [PDF]

Revista de Saúde Pública
OBJECTIVE To assess the availability of healthy and unhealthy food establishments in Brazil and, thereby, map food deserts and food swamps. To analyze maps of food deserts and food swamps in conjunction with indicators of social inequality.
Giovani William Gianetti, Mariana Giannotti, Gabriel Caldeira, Naila Takahashi, Cláudia Roberta Bocca Santos, Ariene Silva do Carmo, Rodrigo Fernando Maule, Gisele Ane Bortolini, Ronaldo Torres, Rogério de S Nóia-Júnior, Bruna Pitasi Arguelhes, Patrícia Chaves Gentil, Lilian Rahal dos Santos, Márcia Muchagata, Sergio Paganini Martins   +14 more
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Spatiotemporal trends in food deserts, food swamps and food environments around schools in Wallonia, Belgium (2008–2024) [PDF]

Archives of Public Health
Background Food environments influence dietary behaviors and nutritional health outcomes. Food deserts, areas characterized by limited spatial access to healthy foods, and food swamps, areas where unhealthy outlets predominate, present challenges to the ...
Nicolas Cammue, Nicolas Berger, Fanny Pandolfi, Stefanie Vandevijvere   +3 more
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Associations between food deserts, food swamps, and ultra-processed food intake in childhood [PDF]

Revista Paulista de Pediatria
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between retail food environments and consumption of ultra-processed foods in children. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 206 children aged 6–36 months who were followed ...
Ana Clara da Cruz Della Torre, Bianca Araujo Milbratz, Wellington Segheto, Maysa Helena de Aguiar Toloni, Daniela Braga Lima   +4 more
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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 ONE
To 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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The effect of food deserts on gynecologic cancer survival [PDF]

Gynecologic Oncology Reports
Objective: 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, Philip H.G. Ituarte, Adrian Kohut, Rosemary Senguttuvan, Nora Ruel, Rebecca Nelson, Ana Tergas, Lorna Rodriguez, Mihae Song   +8 more
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The Changing Landscape of Food Deserts and Swamps over More than a Decade in Flanders, Belgium [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Jeroen Cant, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Vincent Smets   +2 more
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