Corner Store Owners' Perspectives on Increasing Access to Healthy Foods
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Perspectives of Urban Corner Store Owners and Managers on Community Health Problems and Solutions
INTRODUCTION Urban corner store interventions have been implemented to improve access to and promote purchase of healthy foods. However, the perspectives of store owners and managers, who deliver and shape these interventions in collaboration with nonprofit, government, and academic partners, have been largely overlooked. We sought to explore the views of store owners and managers on the role o...
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عنوان ژورنال: The FASEB Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0892-6638,1530-6860
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.29.1_supplement.251.3