¶ … Paez a, Mercado R. G, Farber S, al. (2010), "Relative Accessibility Deprivation Indicators Urban Settings: Definitions Application Food Deserts Montreal," Urban Studies, 47(7), 1415-1438.
Paez A, Mercado R. G, Farber S, et al. (2010). Relative accessibility deprivation indicators for urban settings: Definitions and application to food deserts in Montreal. Urban Studies, 47(7), 1425 -- 1432
The main aim of the article "Relative accessibility deprivation indicators for urban settings: Definitions and application to food deserts in Montreal" is to assess the degree to which proximity to healthy food affects shopping habits and by implication a person's health and body mass. To calculate this, Paez (et al. 2010) used a spatial expansion model to determine the distance traveled for food and compared it with other relevant demographic factors, such as generation, class, number of persons in the household, relative mobility, occupation, and type of geographic location. Specific concern was given for the variables of persons in select categories such as the elderly (over...
Profiles could thus be extremely detailed and refined in terms of how they were used to generate data.
General trends observed included the fact that access to a vehicle tended to increase the distance persons traveled to obtain food, except in city centers, and that individuals with higher income levels tended to have greater mobility, with the exception of persons living in city centers. There is an extremely tight concentration of sources of food in the city center, and far fewer sources on the city's periphery, which affects food…
