ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2015
Healthy versus Unhealthy Suppliers in Food Desert Neighborhoods: A Network Analysis of Corner Stores' Food Supplier Networks.
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B'More Healthy: Communities for Kids (BHCK)
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of factors that influence food store owner and manager decision making and ability or willingness to use choice architecture and marketing mix strategies to encourage healthy consumer purchases in the United States, 2005-2017.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Pooled it
- Development and Implementation: B'More Healthy Communities for Kid's Store and Wholesaler Intervention.Health promotion practice · 2017Trial
- Simulated retail food environments: A literature review of systems science approaches to advance equity in access to healthy diets.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Review
- Corner stores as community hubs: a systematic review of public health, economic impact, and social dynamics in urban areas.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- What does it take for healthy food retail programmes to be successful? Lessons learned in New York City.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- Urban Agriculture as a Means to Food Sovereignty? A Case Study of Baltimore City Residents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Applications of Complex Systems Models to Improve Retail Food Environments for Population Health: A Scoping Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- Food Availability in Different Food Environments Surrounding Schools in a Vulnerable Urban Area of Santiago, Chile: Exploring Socioeconomic Determinants.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Health inequity drives disease biology to create disparities in prostate cancer outcomes.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2022Review
- Development of a System Dynamics Model to Guide Retail Food Store Policies in Baltimore City.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Sendai Virus-Vectored Vaccines That Express Envelope Glycoproteins of Respiratory Viruses.Viruses · 2021Review
- A Model Depicting the Retail Food Environment and Customer Interactions: Components, Outcomes, and Future Directions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Nuclear Receptors, Ligands and the Mammalian B Cell.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Store and neighborhood differences in retailer compliance with a local staple foods ordinance.BMC public health · 2020Observational
- Influences of Vitamin A on Vaccine Immunogenicity and Efficacy.Frontiers in immunology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundProducts in corner stores may be affected by the network of suppliers from which storeowners procure food and beverages. To date, this supplier network has not been well characterized.
methodsUsing network analysis, we examined the connections between corner stores (n = 24) in food deserts of Baltimore City (MD, USA) and their food/beverage suppliers (n = 42), to determine how different store and supplier characteristics correlated.
resultsFood and beverage suppliers fell into two categories: Those providing primarily healthy foods/beverages (n = 15) in the healthy supplier network (HSN) and those providing primarily unhealthy food/beverages (n = 41) in the unhealthy supplier network (UHSN). Corner store connections to suppliers in the UHSN were nearly two times greater (t = 5.23, p < 0.001), and key suppliers in the UHSN core were more diverse, compared to the HSN. The UHSN was significantly more cohesive and densely connected, with corner stores sharing a greater number of the same unhealthy suppliers, compared to HSN, which was less cohesive and sparsely connected (t = 5.82; p < 0.001). Compared to African Americans, Asian and Hispanic corner storeowners had on average -1.53 (p < 0.001) fewer connections to suppliers in the HSN (p < 0.001).
conclusionsOur findings indicate clear differences between corner stores' HSN and UHSN. Addressing ethnic/cultural differences of storeowners may also be important to consider.
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