A survey of food bank operations in five Canadian cities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tarasuk, Valerie ^a   Dachner, Naomi ^a   Hamelin, Anne Marie ^b   Ostry, Aleck ^c   Williams, Patricia ^d   Bosckei, Elietha ^c   Poland, Blake ^e   Raine, Kim ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Food banks; Food insecurity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928789116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1234     Document Type: Article

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