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Measuring Food Access and Food Deserts for Policy Purposes†
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2014AbstractPolicymakers have dedicated increasing attention to whether Americans have access to healthful food. As a result, various methods for measuring food store access at the national level have been developed to identify areas that lack access. However, these methods face definitional, data, and methodological limitations. The focus on neighborhoods
Michele Ver Ploeg +2 more
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Food prices, access to food outlets and child weight
Economics & Human Biology, 2009This study examines the importance of food prices and restaurant and food store outlet availability for child body mass index (BMI). We use the 1998, 2000 and 2002 waves of the child-mother merged files from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth combined with fruit and vegetable and fast food price data obtained from the American
Lisa M, Powell, Yanjun, Bao
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Effects of mobility and location on food access
Health & Place, 2009Access to healthy food has become an important area of investigation for researchers interested in health disparities and inequalities. The debate about the existence and characteristics of 'food deserts' has increased the interest in food availability and equity in health research.
Coveney, John David +1 more
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Food Stamp Program Access. [PDF]
, 2001 Discusses effective access to the program by people who are eligible for it, noting that at any given time, only 59 percent of those who were eligible participated in 1998. Furthermore, this number has been declining since the passage of welfare reform legislation in 1996. Although there are many reasons for not participating, the most common reason is
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Spatial access to food: Retiring the food desert metaphor
Physiology & Behavior, 2018The food desert metaphor has been widely used over the past few decades as a way to identify regions as being at risk for having little or no access to healthy food. While the simplicity of the metaphor is attractive, this article argues that its usefulness to researchers interested in understanding the relationship between the geography of healthy ...
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Physical accessibility of food
2018The case study focuses on the analysis of economic and physical accessibility and availability of food in the Czech Republic. Food security includes three main pillars - availability, access, and utilization. (Duram, 2011) There is precisely examined the area of access to food, in terms of affordability and in terms of the possibility of physical ...
Lukášková, Eva, Pitrová, Kateřina
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