Spatial access to food: Retiring the food desert metaphor.

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.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Physiology and Behavior

• Publication date

  2018-09-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.02.032PMID 29454842
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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