Background Many studies have examined the relationship between the food environment
and health-related outcomes, but fewer consider the integrity of measures used to assess …

Environmental justice is concerned with an equitable distribution of environmental burdens.
These burdens comprise immediate health hazards as well as subtle inequities, such as …

In the current century, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly cardiovascular
diseases, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases, are the most important cause …

Several studies have identified disparities in access to food retailers among urban
neighbourhoods with varied socio-demographic characteristics; but few studies have …

Background: Local fast-food environments have been increasingly linked to obesity and
related outcomes. Individuals who are more sensitive to reward-related cues might be more …

Objectives Community food environment is closely associated with residents' health status,
and it has received substantial research attention in recent years. However, such studies are …

Background Findings of whether marginalized neighbourhoods have less healthy retail food
environments (RFE) are mixed across countries, in part because inconsistent approaches …

Recent revisions of physical therapy codes of ethics have included a new emphasis
concerning health inequities and social injustice. This emphasis reflects the growing …

OBJECTIVES: We examined whether access to retail sources of healthy and unhealthy food
varies according to level of neighbourhood material deprivation in three Ontario regions and …

Disparities in fresh food accessibility are an important topic in health geography. Existing
studies focus on the spatial component of food accessibility and are mostly conducted in …