Community food environment measures in the Alabama Black Belt: Implications for cancer risk reduction

Community food environment measures in the Alabama Black Belt: Implications for cancer risk reduction

In-store measures were utilized to evaluate the availability of healthy food choices and nutrition/health promotion messages for cancer risk reduction in the selected Alabama Black Belt counties/cities. Sixty one retail food outlets (RFOs) were audited in 12 Alabama Black Belt cities. Store types in...

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Main Authors:	Rebecca Gyawu, Joseph E. Quansah, Souleymane Fall, Peter N. Gichuhi, Adelia C. Bovell-Benjamin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:	Preventive Medicine Reports
Subjects:	Alabama Black Belt Retail food outlets Community food environment Cancer prevention Health promotion messages In-store food survey Healthy food availability
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335515001175

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