Selena Ahmed, Carmen Byker Shanks, Virgil Dupuis, Mike Pierre
{"title":"Advancing healthy and sustainable food environments: The Flathead Reservation case study.","authors":"Selena Ahmed, Carmen Byker Shanks, Virgil Dupuis, Mike Pierre","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This case study describes a methodological approach to evaluating and improving food environments in an indigenous community in the United States of America. A community-research partnership was developed to support healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Our team implemented complementary methodologies to evaluate multiple dimensions of the food environment, including food availability, convenience, affordability and desirability. Our findings were used to design and implement multiphase food-environment interventions that elucidated the following: (1) food-environment measurements should be multifaceted and context-specific; (2) food desirability, including sensory attributes, diversity and phytonutrient quality, are important but overlooked aspects of the food environment; (3) successful food-environment interventions are community-based and incremental; (4) food-environment interventions should seek to forge links with existing institutional structures to influence policy; and (5) findings from food-environment interventions should be disseminated in various ways to diverse stakeholders.</p>","PeriodicalId":92970,"journal":{"name":"UNSCN nutrition","volume":"44 ","pages":"38-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6953901/pdf/nihms-1060945.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37537017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allison E Karpyn, Danielle Riser, Tara Tracy, Rui Wang, Y E Shen
{"title":"The changing landscape of food deserts.","authors":"Allison E Karpyn, Danielle Riser, Tara Tracy, Rui Wang, Y E Shen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we discuss the most recent trends in food-retail access in low- and moderate-income communities in the United States of America. We begin with a review of the current literature on the number of people impacted by food deserts and then review several critical retail trends, including supercentres (such as Walmart), dollar stores, farmers markets and online food retail. We discuss the growing investment in incentive programmes, as well as new understandings of the impact of food deserts on health. In the United States of America, the number of communities without adequate access to healthy affordable food has declined, though more than 5.6 percent of the population still lives in low-access census tracts. At the same time, racial and economic disparities in food access remain a considerable concern, with around 30 percent more non-white residents facing limited access to food retail than white residents. We also provide recommendations for areas of future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":92970,"journal":{"name":"UNSCN nutrition","volume":"44 ","pages":"46-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7299236/pdf/nihms-1597659.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38054624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}