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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"healthy food access"”.
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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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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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Farmers Market Access by Snap-eligible Mothers of Young Children: Barriers and Impact on Nutrition Education Programming for Cooperative Extension
Providing improved access to farmers markets and other local food outlets for low-income audiences is an increasingly popular nutrition intervention strategy to promote consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables and address obesity. The USDA encouraged more farm to fork initiatives and efforts to …
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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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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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Obesogenic Environment and Prostate Cancer Prognosis in Chicago, IL
… role of neighborhood socioeconomic status and access to care in prostate cancer survival, less attention has been given to other components of the obesogenic environment, such as food availability and the built environment. This exploratory ecological study examined the association between …
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The Associations of Chronic Stress, Social Support, Health Behaviors and Metabolic Syndrome among Hispanic Women
… three aspects of social support. Staying Healthy Assessment required for MediCal recipients was used as a measurement for health behaviors. Descriptive inferential statistics and odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals estimated the magnitude of associations.</p> <p><strong>Findings: …
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Using Hip Hop to Explore Minority Youths' Critical Consciousness of the Food System
… the lack of urban participation within the food system has resulted in little knowledge of how food is produced or understanding of environmental impacts of food and fiber production. The only participation has been the consumption of food. This study indicated the importance of exposing …
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Personal food environments: Perceptions of retail affordability and accessibility among mothers in Saskatoon, Canada
The intersection of built food environments, foodwork and motherhood is an opportunity to examine healthy food access from the perspective of an important food-purchasing population. The personal food environment represents a geosocial constellation of places and spaces where people access, …