A framework for understanding grocery purchasing in a low-income urban environment

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 665-678

  Zachary, Drew A ^a   Palmer, Anne M ^b   Beckham, Sarah W ^b   Surkan, Pamela J ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; environment; ethnomethodology; health outcomes; health policy policy analysis; nutrition malnutrition; obesity overweight; poverty; social equality inequality; urban issues

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; COST; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BALTIMORE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876063533     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732313479451     Document Type: Article

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