Field validation of food outlet databases: the Latino food environment in North Carolina, USA.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:Obtaining valid, reliable measures of food environments that serve Latino communities is important for understanding barriers to healthy eating in this at-risk population. DESIGN:The primary aim of the study was to examine agreement between retail food outlet data from two commercial databases, Nielsen TDLinx (TDLinx) for food stores and Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) for food stores and restaurants, relative to field observations of food stores and restaurants in thirty-one census tracts in Durham County, NC, USA. We also examined differences by proportion of Hispanic population (

SUBMITTER: Rummo PE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4269578 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature