Neighborhood characteristics associated with the location of food stores and food service places.

By Kimberly B. Morland, S. Wing, A. D. Diez Roux, Charles Poole. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2002

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Transportation

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Understanding the Food Environment in a Low-Income Urban Setting: Implications for Food Store Interventions (2008, background): “14–16 Those living in poor urban neighborhoods are often faced with environmental constraints to the maintenance of a varied diet, including distance to supermarkets, inadequacy of public transportation, and high prices, little variety, and few fresh foods in smaller neighborhood food stores.”
The contextual effect of the local food environment on residents' diets: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. (2002, methodology): “access to private transportation in these neighborhoods.(32) The impact that the availability of healthy foods has on people’s diets has received”
Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States. (2009, background): “However, research suggests that low-income, minority, and rural communities have fewer supermarkets as compared with more affluent areas (39,40).”
Built environments and obesity in disadvantaged populations. (2009, background): “The evidence for whether fast food restaurants are more common in disadvantaged neighborhoods is mixed, with some studies reporting more fast food in poor or minority neighborhoods (7, 37, 44, 59), while others do not (35, 54); there are also studies that find that area poverty predicts more fast fo”
Obesity and the Role of Food Marketing: A Policy Analysis of Issues and Remedies (2004, result): “As we previously noted, recent studies have found that African-American neighborhoods have fewer supermarkets than white neighborhoods (Morland et al. 2002).”
Creating healthy food and eating environments: policy and environmental approaches. (2008, background): “differential availability and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods (2, 58, 62, 66, 67).”
The Urban Creative-Food Economy: Producing Food for the Urban Elite or Social Inclusion Opportunity? (2006, background): “Further up the food chain, retail consolidation is leading to unsustainable and inequitable spatial patterns in the form of continuous sprawling fast-food suburbs and `food deserts' in urban cores (Wrigley et al, 2003; see also Morland et al, 2002a; 2002b).”
Entrepreneurship Education in a Poverty Context: An Empowerment Perspective (2019, background): “Critically, students come to appreciate the multifaceted nature of poverty (Morland et al. 2002; Payne, DeVol, and Smith 2009; Wilson 1996b, 2012).”
Rights-based food systems and the goals of food systems reform (2008, background): “For example, people in many inner cities in the US cannot get fresh produce at reasonable prices because they lack convenient transportation to suburbs where the supermarkets are (Morland et al. 2002; Nayga and Weinberg 1999).”