Food Systems and Public Health Disparities

The United States has set a national goal to eliminate health disparities. This article emphasizes the importance of food systems in generating and exacerbating health disparities in the United States and suggests avenues for reducing them. It presents a conceptual model showing how broad food syste...

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Published in:Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition 2009-07, Vol.4 (3-4), p.282-314
Main Authors: Neff, Roni A., Palmer, Anne M., McKenzie, Shawn E., Lawrence, Robert S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
access to food
Agriculture
Farm Bill
Food
health disparities
healthy foods
Public health
sustainably produced food
United States
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Summary:The United States has set a national goal to eliminate health disparities. This article emphasizes the importance of food systems in generating and exacerbating health disparities in the United States and suggests avenues for reducing them. It presents a conceptual model showing how broad food system conditions interplay with community food environments-and how these relationships are filtered and refracted through prisms of social disparities to generate and exacerbate health disparities. Interactions with demand factors in the social environment are described. The article also highlights the separate food systems pathway to health disparities via environmental and occupational health effects of agriculture.
ISSN:1932-0248
1932-0256
DOI:10.1080/19320240903337041