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Progress in Human Geography, 2013
Studies of ‘food deserts’, neighborhoods in which healthy food is expensive and/or difficult to find, have received much recent political attention. These studies reflect the popularity of a social ecology in public health, rising concerns over an obesity ‘epidemic’, and the increasing ease of spatial analysis using geographic information systems (GIS)
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Studies of ‘food deserts’, neighborhoods in which healthy food is expensive and/or difficult to find, have received much recent political attention. These studies reflect the popularity of a social ecology in public health, rising concerns over an obesity ‘epidemic’, and the increasing ease of spatial analysis using geographic information systems (GIS)
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Journal of Applied Social Science, 2010
Food deserts and accessibility represent a new frontier in the assault of life-threatening, dietrelated diseases, including diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and atherosclerosis. Scholars represent the research literature from diverse disciplines, such as anthropology, agriculture, sociology, economics, marketing, public policy, sociology, and social ...
Anthony Troy Adams +2 more
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Food deserts and accessibility represent a new frontier in the assault of life-threatening, dietrelated diseases, including diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and atherosclerosis. Scholars represent the research literature from diverse disciplines, such as anthropology, agriculture, sociology, economics, marketing, public policy, sociology, and social ...
Anthony Troy Adams +2 more
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Food insecurity and food deserts
The Nurse Practitioner, 2015Food insecurity has been steadily increasing in the United States with prevalence at nearly 15% of all households. Nurse practitioners can assess for food insecurity and provide local resources for families living in neighborhoods without easy access to healthy foods, otherwise known as food deserts.
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Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2008
Given the emerging focus on improving food environments and food systems through planning, this article investigates racial disparities in neighborhood food environments. An empirical case of Erie County, New York tests the hypothesis that people belonging to different racial groups have access to different neighborhood food destinations.
Raja, Samina +2 more
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Given the emerging focus on improving food environments and food systems through planning, this article investigates racial disparities in neighborhood food environments. An empirical case of Erie County, New York tests the hypothesis that people belonging to different racial groups have access to different neighborhood food destinations.
Raja, Samina +2 more
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Understanding Restaurant Healthfulness in Food Deserts
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2021To determine differences in restaurant environments between neighborhood and restaurant type to understand better a food desert's eating environments.The Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for restaurants was used to assess restaurant healthfulness.
Kiwon, Lee, Natalie, Caine-Bish
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Scottish Geographical Journal, 2011
Abstract The poor health of Scots is sometimes linked to poor diet, especially a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. However, this lack may itself be linked to accessibility issues. In recent years, shops selling ‘healthy’ food, such as large superstores, have tended to relocate to edge-of-town locations, which are very accessible to car users but ...
Lindsay Coyle, Robin Flowerdew
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Abstract The poor health of Scots is sometimes linked to poor diet, especially a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. However, this lack may itself be linked to accessibility issues. In recent years, shops selling ‘healthy’ food, such as large superstores, have tended to relocate to edge-of-town locations, which are very accessible to car users but ...
Lindsay Coyle, Robin Flowerdew
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Urban Forum, 2014
Since the mid-1990s, the concept of the ‘urban food desert’ has been extensively applied to deprived neighbourhoods in European and North American cities. Food deserts are usually characterised as economically-disadvantaged areas where there is relatively poor access to healthy and affordable food because of the absence of modern retail outlets (such ...
Jane Battersby, Jonathan Crush
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Since the mid-1990s, the concept of the ‘urban food desert’ has been extensively applied to deprived neighbourhoods in European and North American cities. Food deserts are usually characterised as economically-disadvantaged areas where there is relatively poor access to healthy and affordable food because of the absence of modern retail outlets (such ...
Jane Battersby, Jonathan Crush
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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 Deserts in Virginia [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of the Virginia Food Desert Study Report is to determine the current status of food deserts in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The report identifies challenges, consequences, strategies, and resources to address food deserts and offers recommendations for the Virginia General Assembly's consideration and action.
Grant, Alan L. +14 more
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Neighborhoods' Food Environments Revisited: Food Deserts or Food Swamps?
2016This study uses service area-based coverage method and Poisson regression models to assess neighborhood healthy and unhealthy food environments in the City of Edmonton, Canada. We correlate food availability with different neighborhood socio-economic status (SES).
Wang, Haoluan +3 more
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