This student hopes to use this program to develop additional strategies to address food deserts and malnutrition. Your own experiences may be completely different, but hopefully these examples provide a jumping off point for brainstorming. Whatever your topic may be, make sure you clearly explain ...
A UK city's response to food deserts was investigated during summer 1998 and reviewed in the light of more recent Health Improvement Plan (HImP) and Health Action Zone (HAZ) initiatives. Key stakeholders were identified and interviewed in depth, and semi-structured questionnaires were sent to lo...
American Journal of Public Health 102 (10): e32-e39.Jiao, J., Moudon, A., Ulmer, J., Hurvitz, P., & Drewnowski, A. How to identify food deserts: Measuring physical and economic access to supermarkets in King County, Washington. Am J Public Health, 2012, 102(10): e32-39....
As fresh food stores leave a neighbourhood, residents find it harder to eat well and stay healthy. Food deserts are linked with lower local health outcomes, and they may be a driving force in the health disparities between lower- income and affluent people in the US. Until recently, the iss...
The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts: Workshop Summary In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to affordable healthy food venues, such as supermarkets. Inst... IO Medicine,N Council - National Academies Press (US) 被引量: 91发表: 200...
A core part of it will feature incentives to bring grocery stores to some of Oakland’s food deserts, and plans to increase pedestrian access citywide. Once implemented, the Environmental Justice Element will feature a "comprehensive zoning update process" that will allow for denser and taller ...
addressing climate change and biodiversity. Over the years, it has successfully raised global awareness and mobilized global commitments to combat desertification, land degradation, and drought. The convention also provides essential guidance, capacity building, and resource mobilization to address these ...
and a 20-year veteran in the struggle to build equitable food systems for Black and brown people. She spoke with Food & Wine’s Adina Steiman—while standing in the farm's carrot patch—on why Black-owned farms have become so rare, why food deserts are actually food apartheid, and how ...
1. To address malnutrition, eradicate food inequality Today, we are returning to an idea thatphysicians of the pastwould have taken for granted: that food is a major contributor to ourbrain’s health, as well as our body’s. New research on diet and mental health often centres on...
Food deserts aren't mere inconveniences to the people who live within one; they're an example of food insecurity and they negatively affect public health. Let's look more deeply at these problems, as well as the proposed ways of getting fresh foods into underserved communities. Impact of Food...