Food environments

Food environments include the physical presence of food that affects a person’s diet, a person’s proximity to food store locations, the distribution of food stores, food service, and any physical entity by which food may be obtained, and/or a connected system that allows access to food.

References
  1. CDC. (2014). General Food Environment Resources. [cited 2020 December]. Retrieved from: https:// www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/healthtopics/healthyfood/general.htm
  2. Ahmed, S., Kennedy, G., Crum, J., Vogliano, C., McClung, S., & Anderson, C. (2021). Suitability of Data-Collection Methods, Tools and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low-and Middle-Income Countries. Foods10(11), 2728.
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