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Spatial access to food: Retiring the food desert metaphor

Widener, Michael J.

Physiology & behavior, 2018-09, Vol.193 (Pt B), p.257-260 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Spatial access to food: Retiring the food desert metaphor
Autor: Widener, Michael J.
É parte de: Physiology & behavior, 2018-09, Vol.193 (Pt B), p.257-260
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Descrição: The food desert metaphor has been widely used over the past few decades as a way to identify regions as being at risk for having little or no access to healthy food. While the simplicity of the metaphor is attractive, this article argues that its usefulness to researchers interested in understanding the relationship between the geography of healthy food opportunities and dietary behaviours is limited. More nuanced approaches to incorporating geography into food access studies, like including transportation, economic factors, and time use, in addition to considering other dimensions of accessibility, are warranted. •The food desert concept is problematic when used to examine healthy food access.•Food desert measures typically overemphasize the spatial dimension of access.•More nuanced approaches to associating geography with food access are needed.
Editor: United States: Elsevier Inc
Idioma: Inglês

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