Measuring availability of healthy foods: Agreement between directly measured and self-reported data

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1037-1044

  Moore, Latetia V ^a   Diez Roux, Ana V ^b   Franco, Manuel ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

food; reproducibility of results; residence characteristics; self report; validity (epidemiology)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH RISK; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GRADUATE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEALTHY FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MALE; MARYLAND; NUTRITIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; ROC CURVE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

BALTIMORE; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861368039     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr445     Document Type: Article

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