Access to food source and food source use are associated with healthy and unhealthy food-purchasing behaviours among low-income African-American adults in Baltimore City

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1632-1639

  D'Angelo, Heather ^a   Suratkar, Sonali ^b   Song, Hee Jung ^b   Stauffer, Elizabeth ^c   Gittelsohn, Joel ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; African American; Food stores; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH FOOD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALTIMORE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82555193835     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980011000498     Document Type: Article

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