Open AccessStore patterns of availability and price of food and beverage products across a rural region of Newfoundland and Labrador
Author(s) -
Catherine L. Mah,
Nathan Taylor
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1920-7476
pISSN - 0008-4263
DOI - 10.17269/s41997-019-00260-x
Subject(s) - food prices , rurality , product (mathematics) , rural area , business , agricultural economics , geography , economics , agriculture , food security , medicine , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , pathology
Rural populations bear a disproportionate burden of diet-related risk, and one important explanation is retail food access disparities. Much existing literature has focused on subjective measures of the rural retail food environment, as well as urban-rural differences. The purpose of this paper is to examine how objectively measured food availability and prices vary within a rural region, and to explore how store features predict rural food availability and prices.