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Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 968078, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/968078
Research Article
Food Stress in Adelaide: The Relationship between Low Income and the Affordability of Healthy Food
1Discipline of Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
2School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
3Health Promotion Branch, Department of Health and Ageing, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
Received 6 June 2012; Revised 6 December 2012; Accepted 13 December 2012
Academic Editor: David Strogatz
Copyright © 2013 Paul R. Ward et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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