Rural Food Deserts: Low/income Perspectives on Food Access in Minnesota and Iowa
Rural Food Deserts: Low/income Perspectives on Food Access in Minnesota and Iowa
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jneb.2008.06.008
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Morton, Lois W.
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作者：
Smith, Chery;Morton, Lois W.
目的：调查生活在食物沙漠中的低收入农村居民如何获得社区内正常的食物系统和食品安全网服务，并探索社会、个人和环境是如何驱动食物和食物选择的。设计：7个焦点小组，每组90分钟，有2名主持人在场，并进行录音。背景：明尼苏达州和爱荷华州乡村食物沙漠。参与者：57名居民(明尼苏达州：13名女性和8名男性；爱荷华州：24名女性和12名男性)。大多数参与者是白人，没有完成高中或高等教育。感兴趣的现象：农村居民的食物选择和食物获取。分析：对成绩单进行一致性评估，并根据主题和副主题进行编码。结果：影响食物获取和选择的三个主要主题被确定为：(A)食物的个人和家庭决定因素；(B)社会和文化环境；(C)地点或外部环境的结构。外部环境。结论和影响：个人、环境和饮食行为因素都是相互关联的：在生活在食物沙漠中的明尼苏达州爱荷华州农村人中，每个因素都在影响饮食行为和由此产生的健康结果方面发挥着重要作用。然而，尽管个人因素影响农村人的饮食和行为，但物理和社会环境限制了获得食物的机会，即使在公民参与的社区也是如此。在公民参与度较高的社区，以及当地组织联合起来提供解决方案以减少食品获取障碍的地方，食品获取可能会得到改善，方法是在系统中增加获得正常和食品安全的机会，并创造非正式的替代方案，如社区花园和非正式交通网络，或者通过更多的志愿者参与来加强联邦计划。
Objective: To investigate bow low-income rural residents living in food deserts access the normal food system and food safety net services within their communities and explore how social, personal, and environment drives food and food choice.Design: Seven focus groups (90 minutes each) were conducted with 2 moderators present and were audio-taped.Setting: Food deserts in rural Minnesota and Iowa.Participants: Fifty-seven residents (Minnesota: 13 females and 8 males; Iowa: 24 females and 12 males). Most participants were white and had not completed high school or higher education.Phenomenon of Interest: Food choice and food access among rural residents.Analysis: Transcripts were evaluated For consistency and coded for themes and subthemes. Results: Three dominant themes influence Food access and choice and were identified as: (a) personal and household determinants of food; (b) social and cultural environment; and (c) structure of place or the external environment. external environment.Conclusions and Implications: Personal, environmental, and dietary behavioral factors are all interconnected: each plays a major role in infleuncing dietary behavior and the resulting health outcomes in rural Minnesotans Iowans living in food deserts. However, although personal factors impact eating, behavior rural people, it is the physical and social environments that place constraints on food access, even in civically engaged communities. Food access may be improved in communities where civic engagement is strong, and where local organizations join in providing solutions to decrease barriers of food access by increasing access to the normal and food safety in systems and by creating informal alternatives, such as community gardens and informal transportation networks, or enhancing federal programs through greater volunteer involvement.