Assessing physical access to healthy food across United Kingdom: A systematic review of measures and findings

• Published in: Obesity science & practice Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 233 - 246
• Main Authors: Titis, Elzbieta, Procter, Rob, Walasek, Lukasz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.04.2022; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Body mass index; Diet; Food; food access; food desert; Food quality; Geography; healthy diet; Neighborhoods; Nutrition research; Obesity; Restaurants; Review; Reviews; RFE; Socioeconomic factors; Systematic review; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; United Kingdom; RFE; food desert; food access; obesity

Background Existing research suggests that physical access to food can affect diet quality and thus obesity rates. When defining retail food environment (RFE) quantitatively, there is a little agreement on how to measure “lack of healthy food” and what parameters to use, resulting in a heterogeneity...