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Kim, Boeun, Sarah L. Szanton, Roland Thorpe, Paris Adkins-Jackson, Deidra Crews, and Laura Samuel. "FOOD DESERT RESIDENCE AND COGNITIVE TRAJECTORIES IN US OLDER POPULATION AGED 65 AND OLDER." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (2023): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.0351.

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Abstract A food desert is defined as a census tract with limited access to affordable and nutritious foods. Inequitable access to healthy food may contribute to disparities in cognitive health, but little is known about the role of food deserts in cognitive health. We examined association between living in food deserts and cognitive function in older adults 65 years and older. These analyses employed cohort design by linking the US Department of Agriculture 2010 Food Access Research Atlas data to 2011-2021 National Health and Aging Trends Study. Orientation, executive function, and memory were

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Boehme, Hunter M., Robert J. Kaminski, Timothy Mulrooney, Robert A. Brown, and Rakesh Malhotra. "Violence Within Food Deserts: A Block-Group Examination of Food Access, Racial Composition, and Violent Crime." Violence and Victims 38, no. 3 (2023): 435–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/vv-2022-0007.

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While there is substantial public health literature that documents the negative impacts of living in “food deserts” (e.g., obesity and diabetes), little is known regarding whether living in a food desert is associated with increased criminal victimization. With the block group as the unit of analysis, the present study examines whether there is a relationship between food deserts and elevated crime counts, and whether this relationship varies by racial composition. Results from multiple count models suggest that living in a food desert is not associated with higher levels of violent or propert

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Hamidi, Shima. "Urban sprawl and the emergence of food deserts in the USA." Urban Studies 57, no. 8 (2019): 1660–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019841540.

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Providing access to a variety of healthy and affordable foods has been the goal of several federal and state policy initiatives in the USA. The first step towards the successful implementation of these initiatives is to identify food deserts and to understand the mechanism by which food deserts arise. This national-level study investigates the association between urban sprawl and the emergence of food deserts at both regional and neighbourhood levels. Multilevel analysis is used to model the likelihood of a census tract being a food desert, controlling for sociodemographic and built environmen

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Testa, Alexander, Rahma Mungia, Alexandra van den Berg, and Daphne C. Hernandez. "Food deserts and dental care utilization in the United States." Journal of Public Health Dentistry 83, no. 4 (2023): 389–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12593.

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AbstractObjectivesAlthough food deserts are known to impact health and healthcare utilization, no research has investigated the relationship between food deserts and dental care utilization. This study aimed to fill this gap by assessing the relationship between living in a food desert and self‐reported dental care utilization in the past year.MethodsData are from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 10,495). The association between food deserts and dental care utilization was assessed using covariate‐adjusted multiple logistic regression.ResultsLiving in a food d

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Donovan, Brienne, Daniel Wiese, Jingwei Wu, Lisa Rae, Jeffrey Anderson, and Kevin Henry. "777 Food Swamps, Food Deserts, and Wound Healing in Burn Patients at an Urban Academic Center." Journal of Burn Care & Research 44, Supplement_2 (2023): S175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/irad045.252.

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Abstract Introduction Many victims of burn injury live in food deserts or food swamps. Food deserts are low-income areas with minimal or no access to nutritious foods while food swamps are areas with much greater access to unhealthy, high-calorie foods. We examined the relationship between residency in a food swamp or food desert by census tract and wound healing. Methods We performed a retrospective review of burn patients who underwent split-thickness skin grafting at an ABA verified urban academic burn center between September 2018 and August 2022. Inclusion criteria were burn area less tha

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Francis, Lucine, Nancy Perrin, Frank C. Curriero, Maureen M. Black, and Jerilyn K. Allen. "Food Desert Status of Family Child Care Homes: Relationship to Young Children’s Food Quality." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 11 (2022): 6393. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116393.

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Family child care homes (FCCHs) are a favored child care choice for parents of young children in the U.S. Most FCCH providers purchase and prepare foods for the children in their care. Although FCCH providers can receive monetary support from the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), a federal subsidy program, to purchase nutritious foods, little is known about FCCH providers’ access to nutritious foods, especially among FCCH providers serving children from communities that have been historically disinvested and predominantly Black. This study aims to describe the food desert status of FC

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Slater, Joyce, Stefan Epp-Koop, Megan Jakilazek, and Chris Green. "Food deserts in Winnipeg, Canada: a novel method for measuring a complex and contested construct." Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada 37, no. 10 (2017): 350–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.37.10.05.

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Introduction “Food deserts” have emerged over the past 20 years as spaces of concern for communities, public health authorities and researchers because of their potential negative impact on dietary quality and subsequent health outcomes. Food deserts are residential geographic spaces, typically in urban settings, where low-income residents have limited or no access to retail food establishments with sufficient variety at affordable cost. Research on food deserts presents methodological challenges including retail food store identification and classification, identification of low-income popula

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Donovan, Brienne, Daniel Wiese, Jingwei Wu, Kevin Henry, Lisa Rae, and Jeffrey Anderson. "778 Epidemiology of Food Access in an Urban Burn Population." Journal of Burn Care & Research 44, Supplement_2 (2023): S176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/irad045.253.

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Abstract Introduction Poverty is a known risk factor for burn injury and is associated with residency in food deserts and food swamps. Food deserts are areas with low or no access to nutritious, healthy foods while food swamps are areas with much higher access to high-calorie, unhealthy foods than to foods with good nutritious value. The purpose of our investigation was to determine the prevalence of residency in food deserts and food swamps in burn patients evaluated at an urban academic center and to determine the relationship between residency in these areas and the presence of patient como

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Weatherspoon, Dave, James Oehmke, Assa Dembele, and Lorraine Weatherspoon. "Fresh vegetable demand behaviour in an urban food desert." Urban Studies 52, no. 5 (2014): 960–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098014529340.

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Food deserts are associated with lower quality diets and higher obesity rates. One hypothesis for their emergence is that retailers avoid food deserts because demand side factors such as low income limit demand for healthy foods. A competing hypothesis is that supply side factors cause prohibitively high costs of operation for grocers – leading to limited access to healthy foods and thus low expressed demand. The direction of causality has important implications for improving diets and health of food desert residents. This paper analyses Detroit food desert residents’ fresh vegetable purchasin

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Corbera-Hincapie, Montserrat A., Kristen S. Kurland, Mark R. Hincapie, et al. "Geospatial Analysis of Food Deserts and Their Impact on Health Outcomes in Children with Cystic Fibrosis." Nutrients 13, no. 11 (2021): 3996. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13113996.

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Food insecurity (FI) is defined as “the limited or uncertain access to adequate food.” One root cause of FI is living in a food desert. FI rates among people with cystic fibrosis (CF) are higher than the general United States (US) population. There is limited data on the association between food deserts and CF health outcomes. We conducted a retrospective review of people with CF under 18 years of age at a single pediatric CF center from January to December 2019 using demographic information and CF health parameters. Using a Geographic Information System, we conducted a spatial overlay analysi

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Shannon, Jerry. "Food deserts." Progress in Human Geography 38, no. 2 (2013): 248–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132513484378.

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Adams, Anthony Troy, Monika J. Ulrich, and Amanda Coleman. "Food Deserts." Journal of Applied Social Science 4, no. 2 (2010): 58–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/193672441000400206.

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Landaeta-Díaz, Leslie, Francisco Vergara-Perucich, Carlos Aguirre-Nuñez, Francisca Cancino-Contreras, Juan Correa-Parra, and Felipe Ulloa-León. "Urban Food Deserts and Cardiovascular Health: Evaluating the Impact of Nutritional Inequities on Elderly Populations in Santiago." Applied Sciences 14, no. 17 (2024): 7575. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app14177575.

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This study examines the link between food deserts and cardiovascular health in older adults in Santiago’s Metropolitan Region, Chile. As the population ages and chronic diseases rise, understanding the impact of food accessibility on health is essential. Using multiscale geographically weighted regression, we analyzed data from the Cardiovascular Health Program, socioeconomic indicators, and food desert maps, sourced from the Chilean Ministry of Health and other databases. Spatial analysis, including Voronoi diagrams, assessed the influence of food deserts on health outcomes. Findings show a s

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Hager, Erin R., Alexandra Cockerham, Nicole O’Reilly, et al. "Food swamps and food deserts in Baltimore City, MD, USA: associations with dietary behaviours among urban adolescent girls." Public Health Nutrition 20, no. 14 (2016): 2598–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980016002123.

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AbstractObjectiveTo determine whether living in a food swamp (≥4 corner stores within 0·40 km (0·25 miles) of home) or a food desert (generally, no supermarket or access to healthy foods) is associated with consumption of snacks/desserts or fruits/vegetables, and if neighbourhood-level socio-economic status (SES) confounds relationships.DesignCross-sectional. Assessments included diet (Youth/Adolescent FFQ, skewed dietary variables normalized) and measured height/weight (BMI-for-age percentiles/Z-scores calculated). A geographic information system geocoded home addresses and mapped food desert

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França, Fabiana Chagas Oliveira de, Renata Puppin Zandonadi, Iana Mendes de Almeida Moreira, Izabel Cristina Rodrigues da Silva, and Rita de Cassia Coelho de Almeida Akutsu. "Deserts, Swamps and Food Oases: Mapping around the Schools in Bahia, Brazil and Implications for Ensuring Food and Nutritional Security." Nutrients 16, no. 1 (2024): 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu16010156.

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Deserts, swamps and food oases terms have been used to characterize the food environment according to the identified food availability. Food swamps are defined as neighborhoods with a predominance of food establishments selling ultra-processed foods compared to establishments selling healthy options. In contrast, food oases are areas with easy access to healthy and nutritious foods, such as fruits, vegetables, and other fresh foods. Food deserts describe densely populated urban areas where residents face difficulty obtaining healthy food. In this context, this work aimed to map deserts, swamps

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Smets, Vincent, Jeroen Cant, and Stefanie Vandevijvere. "The Changing Landscape of Food Deserts and Swamps over More than a Decade in Flanders, Belgium." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 21 (2022): 13854. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192113854.

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Food deserts and swamps have previously been mostly studied in Anglo-Saxon countries such as the USA and Great Britain. This research is one of the first studies to map food deserts and swamps in a mainland European, densely populated but heavily fragmented region such as Flanders. The evolution of food deserts and swamps between 2008 and 2020 was assessed. Special focus was given to areas where high numbers of elderly, young people and/or families with low income live. Food deserts were calculated based on supermarket access within 1000 m and bus stop availability, while food swamps were calc

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Sachs, Rachel Ann, Larissa Pamen, Shruthi Reddy Perati, et al. "From food deserts to clinical trial deserts: Challenges in access to breast cancer trials." Journal of Clinical Oncology 43, no. 16_suppl (2025): 1525. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2025.43.16_suppl.1525.

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1525 Background: Patients who live in food deserts have high mortality rates from breast cancer and stand to benefit from participating in research studies, yet they may face complex barriers to doing so. This study explores the relationship between living in a food desert and breast cancer clinical trial enrollment and assesses the contribution of transportation barriers and distance. Methods: The national Vizient Clinical Database (which includes 98% of academic and 1,000 community hospitals) was queried for women treated for breast cancer between January 2022 and June 2024. Patients who tra

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Donovan, Brienne, Jeffrey Anderson, Chinaemelum Akpunonu, Lisa Rae, and Huaqing Zhao. "522 Food Deserts and Burn Wound Healing - Does Geography in an Urban Environment Matter?" Journal of Burn Care & Research 43, Supplement_1 (2022): S96—S97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/irac012.153.

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Abstract Introduction Many burn injury victims in the United States live in regions designated as food deserts. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food deserts as low-income areas where a substantial number of residents do not have access to a supermarket. Nutrition is known to be critical to wound healing. The purpose of this investigation was to determine if there is a relationship between residence in a USDA designated food desert, burn patient cormorbidities, and wound healing at an urban academic medical center. Methods We performed a retrospective review of burn i

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Wood, Van, and Manoj Thomas. "Vulnerable populations in food deserts: a case study." International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing 11, no. 2 (2017): 211–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijphm-03-2017-0012.

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Purpose This paper aims to examine the realities of food deserts and the vulnerable populations in urban areas in the USA; review underlying causes of these realities; and propose a set of solutions to address challenges facing vulnerable populations living in urban food deserts. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a case study with a focus on a specific vulnerable population living in a food desert in the inner city of Richmond, Virginia. Findings While vulnerable populations and food deserts have much in common, in general, they both reflect, for specific groups of people, a failu

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Sigalo, Nekabari, Beth St Jean, and Vanessa Frias-Martinez. "Using Social Media to Predict Food Deserts in the United States: Infodemiology Study of Tweets." JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 8, no. 7 (2022): e34285. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/34285.

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Background The issue of food insecurity is becoming increasingly important to public health practitioners because of the adverse health outcomes and underlying racial disparities associated with insufficient access to healthy foods. Prior research has used data sources such as surveys, geographic information systems, and food store assessments to identify regions classified as food deserts but perhaps the individuals in these regions unknowingly provide their own accounts of food consumption and food insecurity through social media. Social media data have proved useful in answering questions r

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Cohen, Deborah A., Gerald Hunter, Stephanie Williamson, and Tamara Dubowitz. "Are Food Deserts Also Play Deserts?" Journal of Urban Health 93, no. 2 (2016): 235–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-015-0024-7.

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Luo, Xue. "Food Deserts or Food Swamps?" International Journal of Librarianship 5, no. 1 (2020): 78–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2020.vol5.1.161.

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Access to healthy, varied and affordable foods has a great impact on individual dietary patterns and diet-related health outcomes. Consequently, there is an increasing interest in identifying food deserts - areas with poor access to supermarkets or other food retailers that provide a wide range of healthy and affordable food. Using geographic information systems (GIS), this study examines geographic accessibility to both supermarkets and fast food outlets, and explores their relationship with neighbourhood socioeconomic and zoning characteristics to identify food deserts and food swamps in Win

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Key, Johanna, Donna Burnett, Jeganathan Ramesh Babu, and Thangiah Geetha. "The Effects of Food Environment on Obesity in Children: A Systematic Review." Children 10, no. 1 (2023): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10010098.

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Childhood obesity is an epidemic connected with poor eating. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (USDA-ERS), food deserts are geographical locations in which residents have restricted or nonexistent access to healthful and quality food. Restricted access to healthy food is commonly associated with poor nutrition-related health outcomes, including obesity. This review aims to highlight the relationship between residing in a food desert or a similar environment on body mass index (BMI) in school-aged children in North America, predominantly in the

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Huda, Taif, Amanda Wang, Hefan Zhang, Lewei Gao, Yuhong He, and Tingting Zhu. "Identifying Food Deserts in Mississauga: A Comparative Analysis of Socioeconomic Indicators." Urban Science 9, no. 7 (2025): 265. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci9070265.

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A lack of access to healthy food has been a problem for low-income residents in many developed urban areas. Due to travel time and additional transportation costs, these residents often opt for unhealthy food rather than nutritious alternatives. This study examines the spatial distribution of food deserts in Mississauga—one of Canada’s most populous cities and a city with one of the highest diabetes rates in the Province of Ontario. Network analysis was employed to map the geographic inaccessibility to essential nutritious food, defined as residential areas that are beyond a 15-min walking dis

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Jaskiewicz, Lara, Daniel Block, and Noel Chavez. "Finding Food Deserts." Health Promotion Practice 17, no. 3 (2015): 400–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839915610517.

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Raja, Samina, Changxing Ma, and Pavan Yadav. "Beyond Food Deserts." Journal of Planning Education and Research 27, no. 4 (2008): 469–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x08317461.

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Camp, Nadine L. "Food insecurity and food deserts." Nurse Practitioner 40, no. 8 (2015): 32–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.npr.0000453644.36533.3a.

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Fielding, Jonathan E. "Food Deserts or Food Swamps?" Archives of Internal Medicine 171, no. 13 (2011): 1171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.279.

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Jin, He, and Yongmei Lu. "Evaluating Consumer Nutrition Environment in Food Deserts and Food Swamps." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 5 (2021): 2675. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052675.

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This research examines the consumer nutrition environment in the selected neighborhoods identified as food deserts, food swamps, and food oases in Austin, Texas, by considering food availability, food price, food quality, and food labeling. A food auditing instrument M-TxNEA-S (He Jin, San Marcos, TX, USA) was developed to capture the unique dietary culture and food preferences in Texas. A total of 93 food items in 14 grocery stores and supermarkets (GS) and 32 convenience stores (CS) were surveyed. The GS in food swamps and food oases were found to offer significantly more healthy foods than

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Lee, Wonhyung, Janine Jurkowski, and Nicole Gentile. "Food Pantries and Food Deserts: Health Implications of Access to Emergency Food in Low-Income Neighborhoods." Urban Social Work 7, no. 1 (2023): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/usw-2022-0008.

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Access to emergency food is critical for the survival and health of vulnerable populations, but its importance is not understood in the context of food deserts. Using a cross-sectional survey based on Albany and Troy, New York, we compared the two food desert models, one based on paid (e.g., grocery stores) and the other based on free food options (e.g., emergency food sites such as pantries and soup kitchens). Structural equation modeling was conducted to identify pathways among people’s access to food sites, food consumption patterns, food insecurity, and health conditions. Access to grocery

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McCordic and Abrahamo. "Family Structure and Severe Food Insecurity in Maputo and Matola, Mozambique." Sustainability 11, no. 1 (2019): 267. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11010267.

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The rapid growth of Maputo and Matola (neighbouring cities in Mozambique) has dramatically shifted the vulnerability profiles of these cities. Poor neighbourhoods across these two cities may now face the prospect of becoming food deserts. Scholars have defined African urban food deserts by the co-occurrence of poverty and food insecurity. This study aims to assess the assumed relationship between resource poverty and food insecurity in the African urban food desert concept and to assess the contribution of household demographics to this relationship. Using household survey data collected in 20

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Haley, Chanell O., Chelsea R. Singleton, Lily E. King, Lauren Dyer, Katherine P. Theall, and Maeve Wallace. "Association of Food Desert Residency and Preterm Birth in the United States." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 21, no. 4 (2024): 412. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21040412.

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Introduction: Food deserts are a major public health concern. Inadequate access to healthy food has been associated with poor nutrition and the development of dietary related chronic conditions. Objective: To determine the association between geographic access to nutritious food and preterm birth and whether gestational hypertension mediates this relationship. Methods: Food access data was retrieved from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Access Research Atlas (2019) and used to quantify the percentage of Census tracts within each county that were food deserts: low-income tracts with limi

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Robitaille, Éric, and Marie-Claude Paquette. "Development of a Method to Locate Deserts and Food Swamps Following the Experience of a Region in Quebec, Canada." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 10 (2020): 3359. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103359.

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Unhealthy eating and food insecurity are recognized risk factors for chronic diseases. Collective and environmental factors, such as geographic access to food condition food choices. The objective of this study was to map food deserts and food swamps in Gaspesie, a region of Quebec (Canada), using geographical information systems (GIS) and field validation. Eleven sectors (5 rural and 6 urban) where 5% of the Gaspesie population lives were considered food deserts. Eight sectors (all rural) constituting 4.5% of the population were considered food swamps. Nearly 88% (3/8) of food swamps were loc

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Jiao, Junfeng, and Mingming Cai. "Using Open Source Data to Identify Transit Deserts in Four Major Chinese Cities." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 2 (2020): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9020100.

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The concept of transit deserts stems from the concept of food deserts. There is substantial research on transit deserts in developed countries. However, there is no known research that has studied this subject in Chinese cities. Using open-source data, this paper identified transit desert areas in four major Chinese cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu). The results show that: (1) In these four cities, the transit desert areas are mainly concentrated in city centers and hardly occur in any suburban areas, which is very different from the cases in the US. (2) Shanghai has the largest trans

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Kidron, Giora J., and Roberto Lázaro. "Are coastal deserts necessarily dew deserts? An example from the Tabernas Desert." Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics 68, no. 1 (2020): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/johh-2020-0002.

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AbstractVapor condensation, whether due to dew or fog, may add a stable and important source of water to deserts. This was also extensively assessed in the Negev, regarded as a dew desert. Dew deserts necessitate a large reservoir of vapor, and are therefore confined to near oceans or seas. Yet, examples of such deserts are scarce. Here we try to assess whether the Tabernas Desert in SE Spain can be regarded as a dew desert, and may therefore facilitate the growth of certain organisms that otherwise would not survive the dry season. We analyze some of the abiotic conditions of four relatively

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Ferrant, Coline, and Gary Alan Fine. "Food Desert or Food Oasis? Insights from Mexican Chicago." Gastronomica 20, no. 4 (2020): 85–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2020.20.4.85.

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In those neighborhoods that epidemiologists identify as “food deserts,” access to food is difficult and limited to unhealthy options, whereas in “food oases,” access to healthy food is easier and widely available. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexican Chicago, this article moves from the deterministic, spatial frameworks of food deserts and food oases toward a meaning-centered framework of residents' creation of food access and acquisition. Many residents feel that, given the metropolitan structure of Chicago, they can access the resources necessary for their gastronomic lives. Further, t

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Cooksey Stowers, Kristen, Qianxia Jiang, Abiodun Atoloye, Sean Lucan, and Kim Gans. "Racial Differences in Perceived Food Swamp and Food Desert Exposure and Disparities in Self-Reported Dietary Habits." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 19 (2020): 7143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197143.

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Both food swamps and food deserts have been associated with racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in obesity rates. Little is known about how the distribution of food deserts and food swamps relate to disparities in self-reported dietary habits, and health status, particularly for historically marginalized groups. In a national U.S. sample of 4305 online survey participants (age 18+), multinomial logistic regression analyses were used to assess by race and ethnicity the likelihood of living in a food swamp or food desert area. Predicted probabilities of self-reported dietary habits, he

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Jin young Hwang. "The socioeconomic determinants of childhood obesity: Exploring the role of food deserts and access to healthy nutrition in urban areas." Magna Scientia Advanced Research and Reviews 13, no. 2 (2025): 200–210. https://doi.org/10.30574/msarr.2025.13.2.0058.

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The research examines the determinants of childhood obesity with key focus on the socioeconomic realm. The study utilizes mixed research methods to investigate the effect of food deserts and access to healthy nutrition on the obesity status of children. The quantitative analysis utilizes data from the national health databases (NHANES, CDC), and qualitative insights are gained through interviews with parents, policymakers, and healthcare professionals in the target communities. The findings indicate that children in food deserts are more likely to suffer from obesity compared to children in fo

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Zurawski, Erica. "Food Desert Imperialism." Environmental Humanities 17, no. 1 (2025): 88–106. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11543423.

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Abstract If language plays a powerful role in shaping how we see and think about the world and structuring material practices, then the language that is used to describe inequitable food landscapes demands critical investigation. This article attends to the potency of language by interrogating the metaphorical “desert” within the food desert concept. By mapping the extensive critiques of the food desert metaphor onto longer histories of US settler colonialism and imperialism that leverage imperial ideologies about deserts as empty, barren, lacking, and in need of improvement, this article trac

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Coyle, Lindsay, and Robin Flowerdew. "Food Deserts in Dundee." Scottish Geographical Journal 127, no. 1 (2011): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2011.579571.

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Alviola, Pedro A., Rodolfo M. Nayga, Michael R. Thomsen, and Zhongyi Wang. "Determinants of Food Deserts." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95, no. 5 (2013): 1259–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aat029.

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Battersby, Jane, and Jonathan Crush. "Africa’s Urban Food Deserts." Urban Forum 25, no. 2 (2014): 143–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12132-014-9225-5.

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Ashat, Daniel, Nicole Tepper, and Caroline Pawlow. "An Evaluation of Food Insecurity in the D.C. Community." Georgetown Scientific Research Journal 2, no. 2 (2022): 78–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.48091/gsr.v2i2.49.

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Having proper access to food is crucial to the growth and well-being of all individuals; however, not everyone has access to proper nutrition. Nutritious foods may be hard to come by in D.C., especially when considering factors like affordability, and access to grocery stores. D.C. has a series of food deserts, more prominent in the southeast side of the district. Inaccessibility to food within these deserts could be traced to factors beyond grocery stores proximity, including, but not limited to, household income, education, and race. Combating the complexity of food insecurity for residents

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Burrell, Darrell Norman. "Food Apartheid and Food Insecurity." International Journal of Public and Private Perspectives on Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment 6, no. 1 (2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijppphce.306209.

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A Food desert usually occurs in a low-income or minority community with limited access to low-cost fresh and healthy food options. This is due mainly to a lack of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers, resulting in food insecurity. Household food insecurity was related to significantly worse general health, some acute and chronic health problems, and worse health care access, including forgone care and heightened emergency department use, for children. Compared to rates had they not been food insecure, children in food-insecure households had higher rates of lifetime ast

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Testa, Alexander, Dylan B. Jackson, Daniel C. Semenza, and Michael G. Vaughn. "Food deserts and cardiovascular health among young adults." Public Health Nutrition 24, no. 1 (2020): 117–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980020001536.

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AbstractObjective:This study assesses the association between living in a food desert and cardiovascular health risk among young adults in the USA, as well as evaluates whether personal and area socioeconomic status moderates this relationship.Design:A cross-sectional analysis was performed using data from Wave I (1993–1994) and Wave IV (2008) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Ordinary least squares regression models assessing the association between living in a food desert and cardiovascular health were performed. Mediation and moderation analyses assessed th

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Helbich, Marco, Björn Schadenberg, Julian Hagenauer, and Maartje Poelman. "Food deserts? Healthy food access in Amsterdam." Applied Geography 83 (June 2017): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.02.015.

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Ramos Truchero, Guadalupe. "Food Access: the discussion on food deserts." Investigación & Desarrollo 23, no. 2 (2015): 391–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/indes.23.2.6970.

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Goyanes, Annie, and Jeffrey Matthew Hoch. "Using Ecological Diversity Analyses to Characterize the Availability of Healthy Food and Socio-Economic Food Deserts." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 19 (2021): 10297. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910297.

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“Food deserts” are usually defined as geographic areas without local access to fresh, healthy food. We used community ecology statistics in supermarkets to quantify the availability of healthy food and to potentially identify food deserts as areas without a diverse selection of food, rather than a binary as to whether fresh food is present or not. We test whether produce diversity is correlated with neighborhood income or demographics. Abundance and diversity of fresh produce was quantified in supermarkets in Broward County, Florida, USA. Neighborhood income level and racial/ethnic makeup were

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Fernández-Casal, Laura, Emel Karakaya Ayalp, Sevim Pelin Öztürk, Luis Manuel Navas-Gracia, Feral Geçer Sargın, and Julia Pinedo-Gil. "The Quality Turn of Food Deserts into Food Oases in European Cities: Market Opportunities for Local Producers." Agriculture 15, no. 3 (2025): 229. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15030229.

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The current conventional food system is led by large-scale agribusinesses, characterized by industrialized production and increasing distance between food production and consumption. In response, alternative food initiatives (AFIs) have typically emerged as grassroots initiatives that may not be uniformly distributed or accessible. Food deserts, areas with limited access to healthy and affordable food, are often discussed without considering food quality. Addressing this, this article aims to assess food deserts for healthy, local, and sustainable products in 11 European cities, comparing cond

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Trembošová, Miroslava, and Imrich Jakab. "Spreading of Food Deserts in Time and Space: The Case of the City of Nitra (Slovakia)." Sustainability 13, no. 13 (2021): 7138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13137138.

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The aim of the article is to evaluate the time availability of food stores for the population permanently residing in the city of Nitra (Slovakia). Parts of the city where poor accessibility has been identified can be described as “food deserts”. In the last two decades, there have been dramatic changes in the retail network in Nitra, as well as extensive housing construction and an aging change in the demographic structure. Therefore, we evaluated the years 2008 and 2019 separately. This made it possible to evaluate the changes in time availability and the number of inhabitants located in ind

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