Availability, affordability, and accessibility of a healthful diet in a low-income community, central falls, rhode island, 2007-2008

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Sheldon, Marissa ^a   Gans, Kim M ^d   Tai, Ryan ^b   George, Tiffiney ^c   Lawson, Eliza ^c   Pearlman, Deborah N ^c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Brown University Institute for Community Health Promotion ^*  (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DIET; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMERCE; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; RHODE ISLAND;

EID: 77952313154     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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