Integrating expert knowledge in a GIS to optimize siting decisions for small-scale healthy food retail interventions

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Sadler, Richard Casey ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Community based participatory research; Expert knowledge; Food deserts; GIS; Mobile markets; Multi criteria decision making; Public participatory geographic information systems

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEM; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD MARKET; FOOD QUALITY; GIS; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; OPTIMIZATION; RETAILING;

FLINT; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTHY DIET; HUMAN; MICHIGAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; URBAN POPULATION;

COMMERCE; FOOD SUPPLY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTHY DIET; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84975282828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12942-016-0048-6     Document Type: Article

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