Food Market Measures Toolkit: Assessment of Food Environment, Consumers, and Store Owners

Published: February 2015

ID #: 70601

Authors: Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition

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The Food Market Measures Toolkit compiles, categorizes, and describes healthy food retail measures to assist researchers and public health practitioners in selecting the appropriate measurement tool for their work. While a majority of measures focus on store environment and availability of healthy food, this guide also includes measures of consumer and store-owner perspectives. In addition, the guide helps identify gaps in healthy food retail measurement tools, which may encourage researchers to pursue developing and testing new measures moving forward.

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Keywords: Corner store, Food outlet, Grocery store, Rural, Urban

Focus Areas: Food Access, Food Retail

Resource Type: Tools & Measures

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