Food store owners' and managers' perspectives on the food environment: An exploratory mixed-methods study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gravlee, Clarence C ^a   Qasimah Boston, P ^b,c,d   Miaisha Mitchell, M ^d,e   Schultz, Alan F ^f   Betterley, Connie ^g  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b Substance Abuse and Mental Health Program Office   (United States)

^c Project FOOD Now Inc   (United States)

^d Tallahassee Food Network   (United States)

^e Greater Frenchtown Revitalization Council   (United States)

^f BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Leon County Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Food environment; Food stores; Formative research; Health inequalities

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FLORIDA; FOOD; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; OBESITY; ORGANIC FOOD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; COMMERCE; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENT; FLORIDA; FOOD; FOOD SUPPLY; FOOD, ORGANIC; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; OBESITY; OWNERSHIP; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84928725651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1031     Document Type: Review

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