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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Indicators of a health-promoting local food environment: a conceptual framework to inform urban planning policy and practice

Maureen Murphy A J , Hannah Badland A , Mohammad Javad Koohsari A B C , Thomas Astell-Burt D E F , Georgina Trapp G , Karen Villanueva A H , Suzanne Mavoa A I , Melanie Davern A and Billie Giles-Corti A
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A VicHealth Community Wellbeing Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia.

B Behavioural Epidemiology Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, 75 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Vic. 3004, Australia.

C School of Health and Ageing, Australian Catholic University, 215 Spring Street, Melbourne, Vic. 3000, Australia.

D School of Health and Society, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.

E Early Start Research Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.

F Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.

G Centre for the Built Environment and Health, University of Western Australia, 55 Broadway, Crawley, WA 6000, Australia.

H Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, 50 Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic. 3052, Australia.

I SHORE and Whāriki Research Centre, School of Health, Massey University, Auckland 1014, New Zealand.

J Corresponding author. Email: maureenm1@student.unimelb.edu.au

Health Promotion Journal of Australia 28(1) 82-84 https://doi.org/10.1071/HE15098
Submitted: 7 August 2015  Accepted: 6 May 2016   Published: 1 July 2016


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