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The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Food Outlet Accessibility and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption (2012) · doi

  CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that greater spatial accessibility to food outlets comprising the local food environment in Hawaii may not be meaningfully associated with fruit and vegetable consumption; however, associations were detected for the smallest spatial scale examined, warranting further investigation.

  Keywords: spatial food conclusion suggest greater accessibility outlets comprising local environment hawaii meaningfully associated fruit vegetable
• The Effects of Spatial Scale and Aggregation on Food Access Assessment: A Case Study of Tucson, Arizona (2016) · doi

  Geographers have focused their attention on how to accurately evaluate food access and how to identify and delineate food deserts; that is, low-income neighborhoods where affordable and healthy food is lacking or limited.

  Keywords: food geographers focused attention accurately evaluate access identify delineate deserts income neighborhoods affordable healthy lacking
• Neighbourhood differences in diet: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. (1999) · doi

  CONCLUSION: Despite limitations in the definition and characterisation of neighbourhoods, this study found consistent (albeit small) differences across neighbourhoods in food intake, suggesting that more in depth research into potential neighbourhood level determinants of diet is warranted.

  Keywords: neighbourhoods conclusion despite limitations definition characterisation found consistent albeit small differences across food intake suggesting