The contextual effect of the local food environment on residents' diets: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study.

By Kimberly B. Morland, S. Wing, A. D. Diez Roux. American Journal of Public Health, 2002

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Subfields: Food Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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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).”
Disparities and access to healthy food in the United States: A review of food deserts literature. (2010, background): “Previous studies found that predominantly Black neighborhoods have fewer supermarkets compared to predominantly White neighborhoods (Metro Chicago Information Center, 2008; Morland et al., 2002b).”
The local food environment and diet: A systematic review (2012, methodology): “Three studies did not use a buffer distance from residents' houses, but instead looked at the presence of stores within a census tract (Gustafson et al., 2011; Morland et al., 2002) or block group (Laraia et al.”
Assessing the measurement properties of neighborhood scales: from psychometrics to ecometrics. (2007, background): “, locations of recreational facilities or food stores) (11, 12) and geographic information systems (13, 14).”
Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2015, background): “The relationship between low availability of healthier foods such as fruits and vegetables and low consumption of those foods in poor and minority neighborhoods has also been documented.(233) Although no direct biological differences have been found to explain racial differences in CVD risk, behavio”
The built environment and obesity. (2007, background): “To date, investigations of food availability within communities have primarily focused on either the spatial distribution of food stores in relation to socioeconomic characteristics of communities (57–61) or the association between neighborhood food availability and individual-level dietary consumpt”
Understanding the Food Environment in a Low-Income Urban Setting: Implications for Food Store Interventions (2008, background): “16 , 36 A recent study, for example, examined usage patterns of different types of food stores and found differences associated with ethnicity and education level.”