SynthesisHealth & place2012
The local food environment and diet: a systematic review.
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Who cites it
653 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Do the Drivers of Food Choice Differ Between Healthier and Less Healthy Foods? A Systematic Review of Reviews.Nutrition reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Application of acceptability in dietary optimisation models: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Food Environment and Childhood Overweight/Obesity: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Pooled it
- Obesogenicity of food in the informal food retail environment of low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2025Pooled it
- The Association between Community Food Environments and Health Outcomes in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Literature Review.Current nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- The rural food environment and its association with diet, nutrition status, and health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs): a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Food environment research in Canada: a rapid review of methodologies and measures deployed between 2010 and 2021.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
- Global positioning system-based food environment exposures, diet-related, and cardiometabolic health outcomes: a systematic review and research agenda.International journal of health geographics · 2024Pooled it
- Exploring food environment interventions for diet-related outcomes using a food sovereignty framework: a systematic review.Health promotion international · 2023Pooled it
- Assessing the Cost of Healthy and Unhealthy Diets: A Systematic Review of Methods.Current nutrition reports · 2022Pooled it
- Associations Between Diet Quality and Psychosocial and Environmental Factors in Rural Adults.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2026Trial
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- Practicing Interoceptive Sensitivity as a Couple: A Mixed-Methods Acceptance Analysis of a Dyadic vs. Single Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2024Trial
- Improvements in dietary intake, behaviors, and psychosocial measures in a community-randomized cardiovascular disease risk reduction intervention: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities 2.0.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Trial
- The moderating role of eating behaviour traits in the association between exposure to hot food takeaway outlets and body fatness.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Trial
- Walkability, Mobility-Related Neighborhood Built Environment Characteristics, and Adolescent Obesity in Urban Areas of Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Review
- Diet Quality, Food Security Among Mexican-Born Women and Their Associations with Perceived Neighborhood Food Environment.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Photovoice as a Methodology in Obesity Research: A Scoping Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood Food Access with Child Body Mass Index and Obesity.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2026Article
- Local Community Environment Drive India's Obesity Epidemic: A Multilevel Analysis of Geographic Variations Using Asian-Specific BMI Criteria.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
593 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Despite growing attention to the problem of obesogenic environments, there has not been a comprehensive review evaluating the food environment-diet relationship. This study aims to evaluate this relationship in the current literature, focusing specifically on the method of exposure assessment (GIS, survey, or store audit). This study also explores 5 dimensions of "food access" (availability, accessibility, affordability, accommodation, acceptability) using a conceptual definition proposed by Penchansky and Thomas (1981). Articles were retrieved through a systematic keyword search in Web of Science and supplemented by the reference lists of included studies. Thirty-eight studies were reviewed and categorized by the exposure assessment method and the conceptual dimensions of access it captured. GIS-based measures were the most common measures, but were less consistently associated with diet than other measures. Few studies examined dimensions of affordability, accommodation, and acceptability. Because GIS-based measures on their own may not capture important non-geographic dimensions of access, a set of recommendations for future researchers is outlined.
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