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Access to Healthy Food: A Key Focus for Research on Domestic Food Insecurity

Author(s) -

Donald Rose

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of nutrition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463

H-Index - 265

eISSN - 1541-6100

pISSN - 0022-3166

DOI - 10.3945/jn.109.113183

Subject(s) - food insecurity , consumption (sociology) , psychological intervention , food consumption , business , food security , face (sociological concept) , healthy food , key (lock) , dimension (graph theory) , marketing , public economics , environmental health , economics , agricultural economics , psychology , geography , food science , sociology , medicine , computer security , computer science , agriculture , social science , archaeology , psychiatry , chemistry , mathematics , pure mathematics

Geographic access to food is an important dimension of food insecurity in the US, because it affects the cost of food that low-income consumers face and the decisions they make about which foods to purchase. This symposium highlighted several recent studies that developed new techniques for characterizing the food environment, analyzed its influence on consumption and weight status, and explored alternative policy options for interventions.

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