Neighborhoods' Food Environments Revisited: Food Deserts or Food Swamps?
This study uses service area-based coverage method and Poisson regression models to assess neighborhood healthy and unhealthy food environments in the City of Edmonton, Canada. We correlate food availability with different neighborhood socio-economic status (SES). Based on different food environment...
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ftagecon:oai:ageconsearch.umn.edu:235469 2023-05-15T18:40:23+02:00 Neighborhoods' Food Environments Revisited: Food Deserts or Food Swamps? Wang, Haoluan Qiu, Feng 2016 28 http://purl.umn.edu/235469 en_US eng Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts # 8761 http://purl.umn.edu/235469 neighborhood food environment food desert food swamp food tundra service area Poisson regression model Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety Health Economics and Policy Presentation 2016 ftagecon 2016-05-29T02:09:03Z This study uses service area-based coverage method and Poisson regression models to assess neighborhood healthy and unhealthy food environments in the City of Edmonton, Canada. We correlate food availability with different neighborhood socio-economic status (SES). Based on different food environments, we further identify three types of vulnerable neighborhoods that can be considered food deserts, food swamps and food tundras. Results from this study can provide policy makers with tailored strategies to effectively improve food environments with limited resources. Key findings include: (1) Neighborhoods with higher rates of deprived population such as unemployed, minority and low income groups have better access to healthy foods in general; (2) Children populations are negatively associated with both healthy and unhealthy food availability; and (3) Good access to public transportation is associated with good coverage of all types of food stores. Conference Object Tundra AgEcon Search - Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics Canada |
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This study uses service area-based coverage method and Poisson regression models to assess neighborhood healthy and unhealthy food environments in the City of Edmonton, Canada. We correlate food availability with different neighborhood socio-economic status (SES). Based on different food environments, we further identify three types of vulnerable neighborhoods that can be considered food deserts, food swamps and food tundras. Results from this study can provide policy makers with tailored strategies to effectively improve food environments with limited resources. Key findings include: (1) Neighborhoods with higher rates of deprived population such as unemployed, minority and low income groups have better access to healthy foods in general; (2) Children populations are negatively associated with both healthy and unhealthy food availability; and (3) Good access to public transportation is associated with good coverage of all types of food stores. |
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