Geographic access to healthy food resources remains a major focus of research that
examines the contribution of the built environment to healthful eating. Methods used to …

Objective The purpose of this review was to identify how rural and urban food access differs
across small food stores as well as the types of research strategies and methodologies that …

This study seeks to update past studies of rural youth by examining college attendance and
choice decisions for students who graduated from rural high schools, while also conducting …

New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These
gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American …

Abstract The late 2000s Great Recession brought rising neighborhood poverty in the midst
of affluence, and the reemergence of a racial and ethnic “underclass” living in inner-city …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between measures of the household and retail
food environments and fruit and vegetable (FV) intake in both urban and rural environmental …

Abstract Rural African American children living in poverty have a higher prevalence rate of
mental health disorders than their urban counterparts. While access to mental health …

Rural America is commonly viewed as a repository of virtuous and patriotic values, deeply
rooted in a proud immigrant history of farmers and industrious working-class White ethnics …

Little is known about spatial inequalities and potential access to the food environment in
rural areas. In this study, we assessed the food environment in a 6-county rural region of …

This paper documents changing patterns of concentrated poverty in nonmetro areas. Data
from the Decennial US Census Summary Files show that poverty rates—both overall and for …