Studies that explore associations between the local food environment and diet routinely use
global regression models, which assume that relationships are invariant across space, yet …

Background: This study investigates patterns of food shopping and availability of fruit and
vegetables and snack foods in a northern European (Central England) and southern …

Background It has been hypothesised that the presence of health-damaging factors and lack
of health-promoting factors lie in the causal pathway between neighbourhood deprivation …

The purpose of this article is to investigate the sensitivity of food access models to a
dataset's spatial distribution and the empirical definition of food access, which contributes to …

Background Access to varied, healthy and inexpensive foods is an important public health
concern that has been widely documented. Consequently, there is an increasing interest in …

Unhealthy food environments may contribute to an elevated Body Mass Index (BMI), which
is a chronic disease risk factor. We examined the association between residential fast-food …

Objectives Empirical studies of the association between neighbourhood food environments
and individual obesity risk have found mixed results. One possible cause of these mixed …

Introduction Obesity prevalence has almost tripled in Europe since 1980, and the
obesogenic (food) environment is hypothesised to be one of the main drivers. Still, empirical …

ObjectiveTo investigate whether exposure to fast-food outlets and supermarkets is socio-
economically patterned in the city of Copenhagen. DesignThe study was based on a cross …

Objective To determine the extent to which neighborhood needs (socioeconomic deprivation
and vehicle availability) are associated with two criteria of food environment access: 1) …