Associations between the purchase of healthy and fast foods and restrictions to food access: A cross-sectional study in Melbourne, Australia

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 143-150

  Burns, Cate ^a   Bentley, Rebecca ^b   Thornton, Lukar ^c   Kavanagh, Anne ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fast food purchase; Food access; Food security indicators; Fruit and vegetable purchase; Grocery shopping

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BREAD; CATERING SERVICE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FAST FOOD; FRUIT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MILK; NUTRITION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VEGETABLE; VICTORIA;

ANIMALS; BREAD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAST FOODS; FOOD SUPPLY; FRUIT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MILK; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN HEALTH; VEGETABLES; VICTORIA;

EID: 84973429939     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013002796     Document Type: Article

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