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100			_aWrigley, Neil et al.
245			_aAssessing the impact of improved retail access on diet in a ``Food Desert': a preliminary report
260			_c2002
300			_ap.2061-082.
362			_aOct
520			_aIf poor food retail access in deprived areas of British cities is linked, as suggested in many of the policy debates of the late 1990s, via compromised diets/undernutrition to poor health and widening health inequalities, what is the impact of a sudden and significant improvement in food retail access likely to be on the food consumption patterns of residents? In this paper, we describe and provide preliminary results from the first-ever UK study of a major retail provision on diet in a `food desert' a `before/after' study of food consumption patterns in the highly deprived, previously poor food retail access area of Seacroft, Leeds, experiencing a sudden and significant change in its food retail access as a result of the opening of a large superstore by the UK's leading food retailer. We suggest that this study has the potential to provide some of the missing links between poor food retail access, compromised diets/undernutrition, poor health and compound social exclusion that characterised statements on the topic of `food deserts' in the health inequalities and social exclusion debates of the late 1990s, and that its findings may have significant implications for policy debate. - Reproduced.
650			_aFood supply
773			_aUrban Studies
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