Decades of research have demonstrated that diabetes affects racial and ethnic minority and
low-income adult populations in the US disproportionately, with relatively intractable …

Malnutrition in all its forms currently affects one in three people globally and is considered
one of the greatest public health challenges of our time. Low-and middle-income countries …

The food environment is a critical place in the food system to implement interventions to
support sustainable diets and address the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and …

Objective To examine the relationship between local food environments and obesity and
assess the quality of studies reviewed. Methods Systematic keyword searches identified …

The food environment in markets constrains and signals consumers what to purchase. It
encompasses availability, affordability, convenience, and desirability of various foods. The …

Despite growing attention to the problem of obesogenic environments, there has not been a
comprehensive review evaluating the food environment–diet relationship. This study aims to …

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 …

Features of neighborhoods or residential environments may affect health and contribute to
social and race/ethnic inequalities in health. The study of neighborhood health effects has …

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

Increasingly, studies are focusing on the role the local food environment plays in residents'
ability to purchase affordable, healthy and nutritious foods. In a food desert, an area devoid …