Journal article
Foodscapes of southern Ontario: Neighbourhood deprivation and access to healthy and unhealthy food retail
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: We examined whether access to retail sources of healthy and unhealthy food varies according to level of neighbourhood material deprivation in three Ontario regions and whether urban form characteristics help to explain any such variations.METHODS: Food retail (FR) outlets were identified from a commercial database for 804 urban neighbourhoods in Toronto, Brampton/Mississauga and Hamilton, Ontario. The median number of healthy and …
Authors
Polsky JY; Moineddin R; Glazier RH; Dunn JR; Booth GL
Journal
Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 105, No. 5, pp. e369–e375
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
September 2014
DOI
10.17269/cjph.105.4541
ISSN
0008-4263