Assessing the impact of improved retail access on diet in a 'food desert': A preliminary report
Assessing the impact of improved retail access on diet in a 'food desert': A preliminary report
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DOI：
10.1080/0042098022000011362
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发表时间：
2002-10-01
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4.7
通讯作者：
Whelan, A
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作者：
Wrigley, N;Warm, D;Whelan, A
如果正如 20 世纪 90 年代末的许多政策辩论所表明的那样，英国城市贫困地区的食品零售渠道不畅通过饮食不当/营养不良与健康状况不佳和健康不平等扩大有关，那么食品零售渠道的突然显着改善可能对居民的食品消费模式产生什么影响？在本文中，我们描述并提供了英国首次对“食品沙漠”中饮食主要零售供应进行的研究的初步结果，该研究是对利兹 Seacroft 地区高度贫困、以前食品零售渠道较差的食品消费模式的“之前/之后”研究，由于英国领先的食品零售商开设了一家大型超市，该地区的食品零售渠道经历了突然而重大的变化。我们认为，这项研究有可能提供食品零售渠道不畅、饮食受损/营养不良、健康状况不佳和复合社会排斥之间缺失的一些联系，这些联系是 20 世纪 90 年代末健康不平等和社会排斥辩论中关于“食物荒漠”主题的陈述的特征，并且其研究结果可能对政策辩论产生重大影响。
If poor food retail access in deprived areas of British cities is linked, as suggested in many of the policy debates of the late 1990s, via compromised diets/undernutrition to poor health and widening health inequalities, what is the impact of a sudden and significant improvement in food retail access likely to be on the food consumption patterns of residents? In this paper, we describe and provide preliminary results from the first-ever UK study of a major retail provision on diet in a 'food desert'-a 'before/after' study of food consumption patterns in the highly deprived, previously poor food retail access area of Seacroft, Leeds, experiencing a sudden and significant change in its food retail access as a result of the opening of a large superstore by the UK's leading food retailer. We suggest that this study has the potential to provide some of the missing links between poor food retail access, compromised diets/undernutrition, poor health and compound social exclusion that characterised statements on the topic of 'food deserts' in the health inequalities and social exclusion debates of the late 1990s, and that its findings may have significant implications for policy debate.