Neighborhood Food Insecurity Index to Identify Food Vulnerability and Food Deserts in the United Statesneighborhood food insecurity indexfood desertsvulnerabilityThe USDA's definition of food deserts, which is based on the distance to store and a neighborhood's income, seems to be inadequate to ...
Neighborhood Food Insecurity Index to Identify Food Vulnerability and Food Deserts in the United States Neighborhood Food Insecurity Index to Identify Food Vulnerability and Food Deserts in the United Statesneighborhood food insecurity index... S Tiwari,S Ambinakudige - 《Journal of Food Security》 被...
It has been hypothesized that low access to healthy and nutritious food increases health disparities. Low-accessibility areas, called food deserts, are particularly commonplace in lower-income neighborhoods. The metrics for measuring the food environment’s health, called food desert indices, are primari...
Food swamps predict obesity rates better than food deserts in the United States. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14 (11): 1366–1386. Article Google Scholar Cooksey Stowers, K., Q. Jiang, A.T. Atoloye, S. Lucan, and K. Gans. 2020. Racial differences in...
Food Deserts & Access to Food in the United States 短评 >Food Deserts & Access to Food in the United States isbn:1624178790 书名:Food Deserts & Access to Food in the United States 页数:90
According to the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, food “deserts are areas that lack access to affordable fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk, and other foods that make up the full range of a healthy di...
It mentions about the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and supermarkets. It informs that 18.3 million Americans live in low-income areas with a USDA estimate that 1.8 to 6 percent live in food deserts. It states that rural communities are more prone to obesity and type 2 diabetes. ...
Synonyms Food swamp;Low-food-access zone;Obesogenic environments Introduction Interest in areas with poor access to healthy foods, or what have often been dubbed “food deserts,” has greatly increased over the past 15 years in the USA and the world. Since the 1990s, when the concept of “...
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Drawing from the theoretical underpinnings of the just sustainability paradigm, this thesis uses the community food security movement as a platform to discuss and identify rural food deserts. While most previous food desert studies have been focused in urban settings and in the United Kingdom, this...