ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2014
Distance to store, food prices, and obesity in urban food deserts.
Article in American journal of preventive medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05939349 (A Prescription for Health Equity), which is not on this map. Cited by 128 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Prescription for Health Equity: A Healthcare Provider-based Produce Prescription Program for People With Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
Who cites it
128 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Assessing the Cost of Healthy and Unhealthy Diets: A Systematic Review of Methods.Current nutrition reports · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations of Health-Promoting Food Retail-Based Interventions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Health-related outcomes of new grocery store interventions: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2017Pooled it
- Effects of a Family- and Community-Based Diet and Physical Activity Intervention on Home Availability of Fruit, Vegetables, and Sugar-Containing Foods in Primarily Hispanic Households: Secondary Data Analysis from a Randomized Controlled Trial.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Trial
- The role of the built environment, food prices and neighborhood poverty in fruit and vegetable consumption: An instrumental variable analysis of the moving to opportunity experiment.Health & place · 2021Trial
- Long-Term Weight Loss Effects of a Behavioral Weight Management Program: Does the Community Food Environment Matter?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Trial
- The Hidden Costs of Shifting Away from Flexible Packaging: Implications for Food Prices, Access, and Food Waste Among Low-Income U.S. Households.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Association between the food environment and the risk of ischemic stroke.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Land use is associated with Indigenous maternal death occurrence through Native and Western food security.iScience · 2026Article
- Structural Barriers to Healthy Food and High-Sugar Consumption in Black Young Adult Women: The Mediating Role of Internal Health Locus of Control.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- The association of food deserts with readmission and re-operation following long-segment lumbar fusion.Acta neurochirurgica · 2026Article
- Crosstalk between alcohol use disorder and obesity: two sides of the same coin?Molecular psychiatry · 2025Review
- Measurement tools to assess the obesogenic environment in neighborhood: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The promises and perils of a free rural inter-city transportation scheme: A mixed-methods study from Northern Saskatchewan.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Article
- Food Swamps and Transportation Access: Intersecting Structural Determinants of Food Shopping and Access in Marginalized Urban Communities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Association Between Food Desert Residence and Ischemic Stroke Risk: A Population-Based Study.Neurology · 2025Article
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- Supermarket Opening in an Urban, Low-Income Community Was Not Found to Be Associated With Improvements in Dietary Outcomes for Most Residents in the First Year.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal effects of urban micro-scale built environment on cardiovascular diseases.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Access to SNAP-Authorized Retailers and Diet Quality Among SNAP Recipients.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundLack of access to healthy foods may explain why residents of low-income neighborhoods and African Americans in the U.S. have high rates of obesity. The findings on where people shop and how that may influence health are mixed. However, multiple policy initiatives are underway to increase access in communities that currently lack healthy options. Few studies have simultaneously measured obesity, distance, and prices of the store used for primary food shopping. PURPOSE: To examine the relationship among distance to store, food prices, and obesity.
methodsThe Pittsburgh Hill/Homewood Research on Eating, Shopping, and Health study conducted baseline interviews with 1,372 households between May and December 2011 in two low-income, majority African American neighborhoods without a supermarket. Audits of 16 stores where participants reported doing their major food shopping were conducted. Data were analyzed between February 2012 and February 2013.
resultsDistance to store and prices were positively associated with obesity (p<0.05). When distance to store and food prices were jointly modeled, only prices remained significant (p<0.01), with higher prices predicting a lower likelihood of obesity. Although low- and high-price stores did not differ in availability, they significantly differed in their display and marketing of junk foods relative to healthy foods.
conclusionsPlacing supermarkets in food deserts to improve access may not be as important as simultaneously offering better prices for healthy foods relative to junk foods, actively marketing healthy foods, and enabling consumers to resist the influence of junk food marketing.
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