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Author : Gregory Michael Cutrera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Analyzing the Accessibility of Grocery Stores to Low-income Neighborhoods written by Gregory Michael Cutrera and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michele Ver Ploeg
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437921345
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences written by Michele Ver Ploeg and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Dept. of Agr. to conduct a 1-year study to assess the extent of areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, identify characteristics and causes of such areas, consider how limited access affects local populations, and outline recommend. to address the problem. This report presents the findings of the study, which include results from two conferences of national and internat. authorities on food deserts and a set of research studies. It also includes reviews of existing literature, a national-level assessment of access to large grocery stores and supermarkets, analysis of the economic and public health effects of limited access, and a discussion of existing policy interventions. Illus.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309137284
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to affordable healthy food venues, such as supermarkets. Instead, those living in "food deserts" must rely on convenience stores and small neighborhood stores that offer few, if any, healthy food choices, such as fruits and vegetables. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) convened a two-day workshop on January 26-27, 2009, to provide input into a Congressionally-mandated food deserts study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. The workshop, summarized in this volume, provided a forum in which to discuss the public health effects of food deserts.
Author : Juliana A. Maantay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400703295
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Health written by Juliana A. Maantay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a range of geospatial applications for environmental health research, including environmental justice issues, environmental health disparities, air and water contamination, and infectious diseases. Environmental health research is at an exciting point in its use of geotechnologies, and many researchers are working on innovative approaches. This book is a timely scholarly contribution in updating the key concepts and applications of using GIS and other geospatial methods for environmental health research. Each chapter contains original research which utilizes a geotechnical tool (Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, GPS, etc.) to address an environmental health problem. The book is divided into three sections organized around the following themes: issues in GIS and environmental health research; using GIS to assess environmental health impacts; and geospatial methods for environmental health. Representing diverse case studies and geospatial methods, the book is likely to be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students across the geographic and environmental health sciences. The authors are leading researchers and practitioners in the field of GIS and environmental health.
Author : Craig Scharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (449 download)
Download or read book A Co-op Grocery Store for Fresno, California's Lowell Neighborhood written by Craig Scharton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearing to Review Access to Healthy Foods for Beneficiaries of Federal Nutrition Programs and Explore Innovative Methods to Improve Availability written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351489755
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science written by James Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociology has tackled some of the most formidable problems that confront contemporary society: inequality, homelessness, violence, gender, and many more. Sociologists assert that hypotheses can be formulated and tested against empirical evidence, that faulty viewpoints can be uncovered and discarded, and that plausible theory can be distinguished from mere ideology. This collection was written over a span of forty-four years and is presented in the belief that sociology is a science.In Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science, James D. Wright presents his research on some of the social issues that have most vexed America: homelessness, addiction, divorce, minimum wage, and gun control, among others. Starting with essays first published in the flagship journal Society, Wright offers readers a foundational look at specific social problems and the methods sociologists have used to study them. He then provides an up-to-date re-examination of each issue, analysing the changes that have occurred over time and how sociologists have responded to it.This book is both a retrospective on the field and on one scholar's life and work. Using his own experience in researching and writing about America's most trenchant social issues, Wright describes the evolution of the methods and theory used by social scientists to understand and, ultimately, to confront America's most troublesome social problems.
Author : Myahn DeMarchis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Accessibility of Food Services in Oakland and Berkeley written by Myahn DeMarchis and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential proximity to food service areas is relevant to health studies. Using cartographic representation and analysis, this paper shows travel times from residences to restaurants and grocery stores, demonstrating convenience and access within certain geographic areas. Travel within two California cities, Oakland and Berkeley, is examined and discussed. A relationship between race and median income on the census tract level and locations of fast food and grocery stores is defined. The study's findings illustrate that compared with higher income and White populations, lower income and non-White populations have a relatively longer travel time to grocery stores and a relatively shorter travel time to fast food restaurants. Therefore, within the selected geographic areas, lower income and non-White populations experience greater access to unhealthy food choices and relatively limited availability of healthy food.
Author : Kelly Clifton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Limits on Access in Low-income Neighborhoods and the Travel Patterns of Low-income Households written by Kelly Clifton and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309452961
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Elsevier Science Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780080446783
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Access to Destinations written by David Levinson and published by Elsevier Science Limited. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of land use and transportation planning aims to reduce traffic congestion. Comprehensive and policy relevant measures useful to land-use and transportation planning need to capture both land use and travel dimensions. This book focuses on the science and policy around the multi-modal concept of accessibility.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309101212
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-07-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, health among racial and ethnic minorities, as well as poor people, is significantly worse than the overall U.S. population. Health disparities are reflected by indices such as excess mortality and morbidity and shorter life expectancy. Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health is an assessment of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Strategic Research Plan and Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities. It focuses on practical solutions to remedy the state of the current health disparity crisis. The NIH has played the leading role in conducting extensive research on minority health and health disparities for more than two decades. Although additional research is critical to facilitating a better understanding of the overarching social, economic, educational, and environmental factors that predispose groups to specific diseases and conditions, there is also a great need to translate the existing and new information into best care practices. This means increasing communication with affected populations and their communities. Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health presents solutions to improving the health disparities nationwide and evaluates the NIH strategy plan designed to actively correct and combat the ongoing health disparities dilemma.
Author : Green, Cheryl
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799838757
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Examining and Solving Health Disparities in the United States: Emerging Research and Opportunities written by Green, Cheryl and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disparities in healthcare arise when there is an imbalance between opportunities to achieve optimal healthcare with access, education, and financial means. However, the difficult subject of health disparities in healthcare and its historical origins demonstrate that culture and race may contribute to health crises of minority groups within the United States. Educating vulnerable populations on making lifestyle modifications and reducing stress without educating healthcare professionals about increasing their awareness of hidden biases, prejudgment, and discrimination, will allow health disparities to remain. Examining and Solving Health Disparities in the United States: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical reference book that provides discussion on the topic of inequities in healthcare that impact health disparities and serves to increase awareness on these issues. The author particularly explores health disparities from a unifying perspective that supports the understanding of why health disparities occur and how an increase in the awareness, education, and confrontation of discriminatory acts can help make changes at the organizational and societal levels. Covering topics that include cultural clashes, equity, healthcare delivery, and healthcare accessibility, this book is essential for government officials, policymakers, medical administrators, medical professionals, medical boards and directors, researchers, academicians, and students involved in gender studies, cultural studies, social justice, socioeconomics, ethics and law, government, medicine, public health, psychology, sociology, and more.
Author : Suresh Babu
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0124059090
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis written by Suresh Babu and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity, the lack of access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life, continues to be a growing problem as populations increase while the world economy struggles. Formulating effective policies for addressing these issues requires thorough understanding of the empirical data and application of appropriate measurement and analysis of that information. Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis, Second Edition has been revised and updated to include hands-on examples and real-world case studies using the latest datasets, tools and methods. Providing a proven framework for developing applied policy analysis skills, this book is based on over 30 years of food and nutrition policy research at the International Food Policy Research Institute and has been used worldwide to impart the combined skills of statistical data analysis, computer literacy and their use in developing policy alternatives. This book provides core information in a format that provides not only the concept behind the method, but real-world applications giving the reader valuable, practical knowledge. - Updated to address the latest datasets and tools, including STATA software, the future of policy analysis - Includes a new chapter on program evaluation taking the reader from data analysis to policy development to post-implementation measurement - Identifies the proper analysis method, its application to available data and its importance in policy development using real-world scenarios - Over 30% new content and fully revised throughout
Author : Alexandra Plakias
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460406478
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Thinking Through Food written by Alexandra Plakias and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a wide-ranging yet concise introduction to the many philosophical issues surrounding food production and consumption. It begins with discussions of the metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics of food, then moves on to debates about the ethics of eating animals, the environmental impacts of food production, and the role of technology in our food supply, before concluding with discussions of food access, health, and justice. Throughout, the author draws on cross-disciplinary research to engage with historical debates and current events.
Author : Bin Jiang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048185726
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics written by Bin Jiang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Coming of Age: Geospatial Analysis and Modelling in the Early Twenty First Century Forty years ago when spatial analysis first emerged as a distinct theme within geography’s quantitative revolution, the focus was largely on consistent methods for measuring spatial correlation. The concept of spatial au- correlation took pride of place, mirroring concerns in time-series analysis about similar kinds of dependence known to distort the standard probability theory used to derive appropriate statistics. Early applications of spatial correlation tended to reflect geographical patterns expressed as points. The perspective taken on such analytical thinking was founded on induction, the search for pattern in data with a view to suggesting appropriate hypotheses which could subsequently be tested. In parallel but using very different techniques came the development of a more deductive style of analysis based on modelling and thence simulation. Here the focus was on translating prior theory into forms for generating testable predictions whose outcomes could be compared with observations about some system or phenomenon of interest. In the intervening years, spatial analysis has broadened to embrace both inductive and deductive approaches, often combining both in different mixes for the variety of problems to which it is now applied.
Author : Leslie Hossfeld
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 082652205X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Food and Poverty written by Leslie Hossfeld and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we see an increase in obesity that results from lack of access to healthy foods. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food.
