Geospatial models can facilitate the delineation of food access patterns, which is particularly relevant for urban planning and health policymaking. Because community food …
A healthy food environment is an important component in helping people access and maintain healthy diets, which may reduce the prevalence of chronic disease. With few …
Inequality to food access has always been a serious problem, yet it became even more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated social inequality and reshaped …
J Shannon - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
For the last twenty years, scholarly research has relied primarily on food deserts as a way to frame geographic disparities in access to healthy foods. The results of this research have …
S Assari - Frontiers in Public Health, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Higher education is widely recognized as a strategy to mitigate food insecurity. However, marginalized and racialized groups, especially Latinos, often do not experience …
A Poorthuis, M Zook - Journal of Transport Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
The 15-minute city–providing every resident's daily needs within a 15-minute walk, cycle or public transportation ride–has recently gained popularity among policy makers as a means …
Retail is an important function at the core of urban areas, occupying a key role in determining their economic prosperity, desirability, and vibrancy. Efforts to understand the …
P Joassart-Marcelli, JS Rossiter… - … and Planning a, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, the concept of food desert has come to dominate research and policy debates around food environments and their impacts on health, with mounting evidence that …
Introduction Health problems such as obesity and related illnesses have been attributed to the lack of both spatial and economic access to healthy food. Even though access to healthy …