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AAP Grand Rounds 14:66-67 (2005) Supersize en Route to SchoolSource: Austin SB, Melly SJ, Sanchez BN, et al. Clustering of fast food restaurants around schools: a novel application of spatial statistics to the study of food environment. Am J Public Health. 2005;95:15751581.
The purpose of this study by researchers at Childrens Hospital Boston and Harvard School of Public Health was to examine the concentration of fast food restaurants in areas surrounding schools in Chicago neighborhoods. Fast food restaurants were defined as establishments where customers pay before eating and the food can be eaten on site or as take-out. The resulting 624 fast food sites, representing 79 restaurant chain brands, were linked by geo-coding to 1,292 Chicago public and private elementary and secondary schools. The researchers assessed the mean and median distance from schools to fast food establishments, and whether a school had at least 1 fast food restaurant within
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