Reestablishing healthy food retail: Changing the landscape of food deserts

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-30

  Karpyn, Allison ^a   Young, Candace ^a   Weiss, Stephanie ^a  

^a Food Trust   (United States)

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EID: 84856551144     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2011.0113     Document Type: Review

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