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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Associations between food deserts, food swamps, and ultra-processed food intake in childhood [PDF]
Revista Paulista de PediatriaObjective: 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 +4 more
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Mapping of Grocery Stores in Slovak Countryside in Context of Food Deserts
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2015 The paper is focused on mapping grocery stores in the Slovak countryside with an emphasis on identifying potential food deserts in rural areas. Grocery stores are analyzed in the time period 2001–2011.
Kristína Bilková, František Križan
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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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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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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 Vincent Smets +2 more
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Geospatial Analysis of Food Deserts and Their Impact on Health Outcomes in Children with Cystic Fibrosis [PDF]
Nutrients, 2021 Anthony Fabio +2 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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