Neighborhood characteristics and availability of healthy foods in Baltimore.

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Published in Am J Prev Med on October 08, 2008

Authors

Manuel Franco1, Ana V Diez Roux, Thomas A Glass, Benjamín Caballero, Frederick L Brancati

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2217, USA. mfranco@jhsph.edu

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