When are food deserts? Integrating time into research on food accessibility

Health and Place

Volumn 30, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-3

  Widener, Michael J ^a   Shannon, Jerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food accessibility; Food deserts; Health geography; Space time accessibility; Spatio temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; FOOD; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH IMPACT; RESEARCH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SUPPLY; NUTRITION;

ARTICLE; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HARVEST PERIOD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WELLBEING; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHY; RESEARCH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTOR; COMMUNITY LIVING; FOOD ACCESSIBILITY; FOOD DESERT; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION; NUTRITION SERVICE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COMMERCE; FOOD SUPPLY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84906253806     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.07.011     Document Type: Article

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