Mobile and home-based vendors' contributions to the retail food environment in rural South Texas Mexican-origin settlements

Appetite

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 212-217

  Valdez, Zulema ^a   Dean, Wesley R ^a   Sharkey, Joseph R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonias; Food desert; Mexican Americans; Mexican immigrants; Mobile food vendors; Obesity; Potential and realized food access; Poverty; Public health; Rural food environment; Self employment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MARKETING; MEXICO; MINORITY GROUP; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEVERAGES; COMMERCE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861476017     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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