Monitoring the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods and non-alcoholic beverages in community and consumer retail food environments globally

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue S1, 2013, Pages 108-119

  Ni Mhurchu, C ^a   Vandevijvere, S ^a   Waterlander, W ^a   Thornton, L E ^b   Kelly, B ^c   Cameron, A J ^b   Snowdon, W ^b,d   Swinburn, B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d Pacific Research Centre for the Prevention of Obesity and Non Communicable Diseases   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Food access; Food availability; Food location; INFORMAS; Retail food environment

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; CONSUMER; DIETARY INTAKE; FOOD; HUMAN; NON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; REVIEW;

FOOD ACCESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD LOCATION; INFORMAS; RETAIL FOOD ENVIRONMENT;

BEVERAGES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; FAST FOODS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD LABELING; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OBESITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESTAURANTS;

EID: 84885111958     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/obr.12080     Document Type: Review

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