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ArticleJournal of nutrition education and behavior2026

Digitalization of the Retail Food Environment: Modernizing Food Access, Highlighting Health Equity, and Identifying Opportunities for Future Research and Practice.

Jared T McGuirt, Megan R Winkler, Yarisbel Melo Herrera, Bree Bode, Caitlin M Lowery, Maya Vadiveloo

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Article in Journal of nutrition education and behavior, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jared T McGuirtDepartment of Nutrition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN. Electronic address: jmcguirt@utk.edu.
Megan R WinklerDepartment of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Yarisbel Melo HerreraGerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
Bree BodeMichigan Fitness Foundation, East Lansing, MI.
Caitlin M LoweryInstitute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
Maya VadivelooDepartment of Nutrition, College of Health Sciences, The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.

Funding

Development of personalized healthy food incentives to improve diet and cardiovascular riskK01HL165104 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND · PI MAYA VADIVELOO · 2023 to 2026
$689k
NHLBI NIH HHS K01 HL165104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The digital transformation of the retail food environment is reshaping public health, producing both positive and negative impacts on how US consumers access food. This Research Report synthesizes these changes and explains why public health nutrition must modernize definitions and measures of food access, highlighting priority directions for new measurement approaches. Finally, we discuss future research and practice needs and directions, and describe how innovative nutrition education and behavior strategies, appropriate measurement, and policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) approaches can align public health and health equity efforts with the ongoing digital transformation of the food environment.

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CommerceFood SupplyHealth EquityDigital HealthDigital MediaHumansPublic Healthdigitaldigital marketingfood accesshealth equityonline grocery

Identifiers

PMID41603841
PMCPMC13014527

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