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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"Food access"”.
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Urban food access: a study of the lived experience of food access within a low-income community in Cape Town
Within the pool of urban food access literatures a split has emerged. One body of literature has tended to look towards the structural elements of the food economy to indicate communities which have limited access to nutritious and affordable food. A second body of literature have focussed more on …
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Exploration of Differences in Food Environment Perceptions and Shopping Behaviors among Residents of Low Food Access Versus High Food Access Areas
… into unhealthful dietary behaviors. Limited access to food outlets, such as grocery stores and supermarkets, is a major problem for many low income populations.</p> <p>Purpose: We explored potential differences in healthy food availability perceptions and food shopping behaviors between …
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Overcoming Barriers to Local Food Access: A Case Study
<p>This thesis focuses on the idea that food insecurity and access are real issues in the lives of many Americans. Simply stated, food insecurity is when a person does not have enough food to eat or does now know where his/her next meal is coming from. More importantly when looking at food …
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Healthy Food Access and Consumption: Informing Interventions Through Analytics
… about 19 million people reside in low income food deserts--neighborhoods where the majority of the population does not have access to large grocery stores. These areas are associated with less healthy diets and higher rates of poor health outcomes such as obesity and heart disease. Roughly 25% …
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Analysing food access to improve food security in South Africa.
This study focuses on the level of food access in South Africa in order to improve food security in the country. South Africa, having been affected by the pandemic, left a significant number of people suffering from hunger as they were unable to access food, due to reductions of income. This …
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Rethinking Food Deserts: the practice and politics of food access
Food deserts, low-income communities with low access to healthy, affordable foods, have received rapidly increasing attention in recent years from academic researchers, policy makers, and activists. Many studies have linked food deserts to increased rates of obesity and their related health …
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Food access in local food retail stores: a mixed method approach
This mixed methods study focuses on food access in local food retail environments within three neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Food deserts are areas in which residents have limited access to healthy foods. African Americans and populations residing in low-income urban neighborhoods …
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Geography of urban food access : exploring potential causes of food deserts
We believe we understand food deserts, but we do not. In the last decade the phenomenon of food deserts has been often discussed, and many solutions are proposed to alleviate food access issues in American cities. However, I argue that the efficacy of these solutions is questionable until the …
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Political ecologies of encounter: mapping enclosures and disruptions in food access
… is an examination of the role of community-based food projects in place making and collective futuring efforts. I look specifically at food access projects in Dayton, Ohio, a city I have personal connections to. In this study, I forefront the concepts of relationality, co-creation, ownership, …
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Growing Support: Localism, Nonprofits, and Food Access in Post-Katrina New Orleans
<p>Problems with food insecurity, such as a lack of access to healthy and affordable food in low-income neighborhoods, has been an ongoing challenge in New Orleans. The damages inflicted by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent citywide flooding on the local food system reduced the numerical count of …
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Beyond Food Access: Accumulation by Dispossession and Dollar General in Central Appalachia
… attention to the expanding poverty class in low-food-access urban and rural areas. Central Appalachia in particular -- which has one of the highest rates of low food access and poverty in the nation -- has been a growth center for Dollar General stores. Has the growth in Dollar General stores in …
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Effects of Photovoice on Youth Perceptions of Healthy Food Access in the Built Environment
… diseases related to obesity because they lack access to stores that have affordable, fresh, nutritious foods that are necessary for a healthy diet. Photovoice can serve as a tool to engage youth in positive health behaviors and behavior change. Healthy food access has been analyzed based on …
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Three essays in the application of obesity economics to intervention evaluation and food access
… research, from potential causes in the local food environment, to potential programs to address obesity in the worksite. The first chapter addresses the effectiveness evaluation of weight loss programs, which usually focuses on significant changes in weight. However, the underlying goal of …
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Examining the Role Dietary Habits Play with Food Access, Stress, and Chronic Conditions Among African-Americans
… conditions, are more likely to live in low food access communities and not adhere to dietary recommendations. Limited research analyzes African-American adults’ diet and food access by specific neighborhood. This thesis, a secondary data analysis, used Health Advocates In-Reach and …
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Local food access in inner cities: Integrated research through: comparison study, literature review, case studies and design implementation
… the promotion of increasing the availability and accessibility of local food. This strategy has the opportunity to bring nutritious meals into our homes, place money into our local economies and promote self-sustaining communities. This study examines literature and case studies involving both …
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Exploring the Role of the Mixed Methods Approach in Facilitating an Improved Understanding of Food Access in Masiphumelele
This thesis focuses on the food environment of Masiphumelele and seeks to understand how mixed-method approaches could be employed to facilitate an advanced understanding of food access in Masiphumelele. Masiphumelele was chosen as the case study for this research project as this work is sponsored …
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Addressing barriers to food access among university employees: reducing stigma and raising awareness through a community-based pilot intervention
… global population experiences moderate to severe food insecurity, affecting individuals across cultures, regions, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The city of Fort Collins, Colorado is home to Colorado State University (CSU), which includes a large population of both university students and …
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Increasing Equitable Food Access Within Food Deserts in Urban Areas: A Case Study of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
… disparities are pronounced. The locations of food deserts, or unhealthy food environments, correspond to areas with the highest proportions of minority residents, populations suffering from higher rates of many chronic conditions, including obesity and diabetes. As well, food deserts tend to …
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Food access, self-rated health, and diabetes self-efficacy among prenatal women in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
… resulting in pandemic-related behaviors such as food and water stockpiling (FWS). Consumer FWS behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic posed a demand shock in the food supply chains, affecting access to food by nutritionally vulnerable individuals, particularly prenatal women with gestational …
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