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The case of Montréal's missing food deserts: Evaluation of accessibility to food supermarkets

Philippe Apparicio*, Marie-Soleil Cloutier and Richard Shearmur

International Journal of Health Geographics 2007, 6:4 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-6-4

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Neighborhood food environment and body mass index among Japanese older adults: results from the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES)

Tomoya Hanibuchi, Katsunori Kondo, Tomoki Nakaya, Miyo Nakade, Toshiyuki Ojima, Hiroshi Hirai, Ichiro Kawachi International Journal of Health Geographics 2011, 10:43 (21 July 2011)

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The food retail environment and area deprivation in Glasgow City, UK

Laura Macdonald, Anne Ellaway, Sally Macintyre International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2009, 6:52 (6 August 2009)

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Association between neighborhood need and spatial access to food stores and fast food restaurants in neighborhoods of Colonias

Joseph R Sharkey, Scott Horel, Daikwon Han, John C Huber International Journal of Health Geographics 2009, 8:9 (16 February 2009)

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Field validation of listings of food stores and commercial physical activity establishments from secondary data

Catherine Paquet, Mark Daniel, Yan Kestens, Karine Léger, Lise Gauvin International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008, 5:58 (10 November 2008)

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Mapping the evolution of 'food deserts' in a Canadian city: Supermarket accessibility in London, Ontario, 1961–2005

Kristian Larsen, Jason Gilliland International Journal of Health Geographics 2008, 7:16 (18 April 2008)

Urban food deserts have spatial as well as socioeconomic causes and these should be considered when developing public health strategies designed to overcome nutritional inequities in city communities.

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Comparing alternative approaches to measuring the geographical accessibility of urban health services: Distance types and aggregation-error issues

Philippe Apparicio, Mohamed Abdelmajid, Mylène Riva, Richard Shearmur International Journal of Health Geographics 2008, 7:7 (18 February 2008)

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An analysis of the accessibility of video lottery terminals: the case of Montréal

Éric Robitaille, Patrick Herjean International Journal of Health Geographics 2008, 7:2 (18 January 2008)