How do urban food environments produce health disparities? The literature currently
emphasizes the etiologic relevance of urban food deserts and their nutritional shortcomings …

In the past decade, progressive public health advocates and food justice activists have
increasingly argued that food deserts, which they define as neighborhoods lacking available …

Residents of poor and minority neighborhoods have less access to healthy, affordable food
than their counterparts in more advantaged neighborhoods, and these disparities translate …

In recent years, the concept of food desert has come to dominate research and policy
debates around food environments and their impacts on health, with mounting evidence that …

To respond to the high prevalence of obesity and its associated health consequences,
recent food research and policy have focused on neighborhood food environments …

BACKGROUND: Poor dietary patterns and obesity, established risk factors for chronic
disease, have been linked to neighborhood deprivation, neighborhood minority …

BACKGROUND: Studies of the food environment near schools have focused on fast food.
Research is needed that describes patterns of exposure to a broader range of food outlet …

There is increasing recognition that the nutrition transition sweeping the world's cities is
multifaceted. Urban food and nutrition systems are beginning to share similar features …

Morland et al suggest that the absence of a neighborhood supermarket is associated with
poor adherence to healthy eating patterns compared with those in neighborhoods with one …

Initiatives to build supermarkets in low-income areas with relatively poor access to large
food retailers (“food deserts”) have been implemented at all levels of government, although …