This study targets distributed access to affordable healthy food in Denver, Colorado, which varies according to social advantage and disadvantage, as a possible explanation for health inequalities. This is a promising approach for understanding the relationship between food environment and health.
This project looked at systematic differences in access to healthy, affordable food for a disadvantaged group and compared it to an advantaged group. We found that the disadvantaged social group lived closer to food stores and had more food stores (including grocery stores) in their food environment than the advantaged group. The average cost of a Staple Food Basket for the disadvantaged group was significantly less expensive at the closest food store, but more expensive at the closest grocery store,as compared to the advantaged group. Although there was no difference in the number of available Healthy Food Basket items at the closest store for the disadvantaged group compared to the advantaged group, the disadvantaged group had significantly fewer items available at the closest grocery store.
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Advancing healthy and sustainable food environments: The Flathead Reservation case study
If you Build it with them, they will come": What makes a supermarket intervention successful in a food desert?"
Leveraging Citizen Science for Healthier Food Environments: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Corner Stores in Camden, New Jersey
Partnering with carryouts: implementation of a food environment intervention targeting youth obesity
Changes in School Competitive Food Environments after a Health Promotion Campaign
Changing the restaurant food environment to improve cardiovascular health in a rural community: implementation and evaluation of the Heart of New Ulm restaurant programme
Access in the Food Environment: A Health Equity Approach Reveals Unequal Opportunity
Progress Evaluation for the Restaurant Industry Assessed by a Voluntary Marketing-Mix and Choice-Architecture Framework That Offers Strategies to Nudge American Customers toward Healthy Food Environments, 2006-2017
FEAST: Utilization of a technology-driven approach to empower citizen scientists to advocate for healthy food environments
Can the introduction of a full-service supermarket in a food desert improve residents' economic status and health?
Developing and Implementing Waupaca Eating Smart": A Restaurant and Supermarket Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Through Changes in the Food Environment"
Modified ground-truthing: an accurate and cost-effective food environment validation method for town and rural areas
Mobilizing Young People in Community Efforts to Improve the Food Environment: Corner Store Conversions in East Los Angeles
Challenges And Lessons Learned From Communities Using Evidence To Adopt Strategies To Improve Healthy Food Environments
Physical activity and food environment assessments: implications for practice