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Schafft, Kai A.; Jensen, Eric B.; Hinrichs, C. Clare – Rural Sociology, 2009
The concept of the "food desert", an area with limited access to retail food stores, has increasingly been used within social scientific and public health research to explore the dimensions of spatial inequality and community well-being. While research has demonstrated that food deserts are frequently characterized by higher levels of…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Economically Disadvantaged, Public Health