Gender and Age Are Associated with Healthy Food Purchases via Grocery Voucher Redemption

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Explores the association of age, gender, education, and income level with purchasing healthy foods using a grocery voucher in rural Appalachian Kentucky, an area considered a food desert with higher rates of chronic disease. Includes data on the purchase of a designated voucher food item by age, sex, education, and income.

Frances Hardin-Fanning, Yevgeniya Gokun

Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2830

07/2014

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Appalachia · Cardiovascular disease · Environmental health · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Kentucky