Neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood poverty, and the spatial accessibility of supermarkets in metropolitan Detroit.

By S. Zenk, A. Schulz, B. Israel, S. James, S. Bao, Mark L. Wilson. American Journal of Public Health, 2005

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Nonwork Accessibility as a Social Equity Indicator (2015, background): “Numerous studies claim that high-poverty neighborhoods of central cities are disadvantaged compared to other neighborhoods in their ability to obtain healthy, affordable food because grocery stores are not located nearby and transportation options are limited (Chung and Myers 1999; Gordon et al. 201”
Food insecurity is associated with chronic disease among low-income NHANES participants. (2010, background): “This cycle may be exacerbated by the relative dearth of full-service grocery stores in many lowincome, and particularly African-American, neighborhoods across the US (54,55).”
Implications of supermarket expansion on urban food security in Cape Town, South Africa (2015, background): “One definition utilized by the United States Department of Agriculture sees them as ‘low-income census tract[s] where either a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store (ver Ploeg et al., 2009).’”
Measuring the food environment using geographical information systems: a methodological review (2010, methodology): “(2005)((63)) Detroit (Michigan) Supermarket:”
Disparities and access to healthy food in the United States: A review of food deserts literature. (2010, background): “1 mile farther from the closest supermarket compared to the most impoverished White neighborhoods (Zenk et al., 2005).”
Food store availability and neighborhood characteristics in the United States. (2007, background): “Recent study results showed that, among the poorest tertile of neighborhoods, distance to the nearest chain supermarket increased with a higher proportion of African Americans, but remained similar across race in the least impoverished neighborhoods (Zenk et al., 2005b).”