Accessing healthy food: Availability and price of a healthy food basket in Scotland

Journal of Marketing Management

Volumn 24, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 893-913

  Dawson, John ^a,b   Marshall, David ^a   Taylor, Matt ^a   Cummins, Steven ^c   Sparks, Leigh ^b   Anderson, Annie S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food access; Food prices; Food retailing; Healthy food; Neighbourhood retailing; Scotland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885216684     PISSN: 0267257X     EISSN: 14721376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1362/026725708X381957     Document Type: Article

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