Beyond Neighborhood Food Environments: Distance Traveled to Food Establishments in 5 US Cities, 2009–2011

Beyond Neighborhood Food Environments: Distance Traveled to Food Establishments in 5 US Cities, 2009–2011

INTRODUCTION Accurate conceptualizations of neighborhood environments are important in the design of policies and programs aiming to improve access to healthy food. Neighborhood environments are often defined by administrative units or buffers around points of interest. An individual may eat and shop for food within or outside these areas, which may not reflect accessibility of food establishme...

Samina Raja , Changxing Ma and Pavan Yadav Beyond Food Deserts : Measuring and Mapping Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Food Environments

Food Deserts and the Sociology of Space: Distance to Food Retailers and Food Insecurity in an Urban American Neighborhood

Recent changes in food retailing structure have led to the development of large supercenters in suburban areas of the United States. These changes have led some authors to suggest that there are food deserts in some urban areas, where food is difficult to access, especially for disadvantaged consumers. This study tests the food desert hypothesis by comparing the distance from food retailers to ...

Healthy food availability in small urban food stores: a comparison of four US cities.

OBJECTIVE Given that small food stores may be important retail food sources in low-income urban communities, our objective was to examine cross-city comparative data documenting healthy food availability within such facilities, particularly those located in low-income areas and nearby schools. DESIGN Food stores in Baltimore, Maryland; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Oakland, California; and...

Beyond food and nutrition: How can cities be made healthy?

Urbanization is one of the predominant demographic trends of the late 20th century, with populations in developing countries moving in ever greater numbers from the rural countryside to cities of all sizes. The nutrition community is logically mostly fixated on issues of intake of foods and determination by nutritional status, and see urbanization and urban populations through that prism. Aside...