Effects of mobility and location on food access
Effects of mobility and location on food access
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DOI：
10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.01.010
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发表时间：
2009-03-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
O'Dwyer, Lisel A.
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作者：
Coveney, John;O'Dwyer, Lisel A.
对于对健康差异和不平等感兴趣的研究人员来说，获取健康食品已成为一个重要的研究领域。关于“食物荒漠”的存在和特征的争论增加了人们对食物供应和健康研究公平性的兴趣。这场辩论对于理解导致粮食安全的因素至关重要。本文报告的研究对生活在南澳大利亚阿德莱德食物荒漠内外没有私人交通工具的受访者进行了深入访谈。受访者来自不同的家庭，包括单亲、双亲家庭以及独居人士。研究发现，生活在食物荒漠中本身并不会造成食物获取困难。更重要的是获得前往商店的独立交通。这项研究确定了许多特征，包括对超市的依赖、公共交通的困难以及政府提供的计划和系统使某些人购买食品变得更加容易。研究表明，阿德莱德的食品获取问题与其说是家庭和商店之间地理距离的结果，不如说是允许人们使用私人交通工具的社会或福利网络的结果。 (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. 保留所有权利。
Access to healthy food has become an important area of investigation for researchers interested in health disparities and inequalities. The debate about the existence and characteristics of `food deserts' has increased the interest in food availability and equity in health research. This debate is crucial to an understanding of the factors leading to food security. Research reported here used in-depth interviews with respondents without private transport living within and outside food deserts in Adelaide, South Australia. The respondents came from a variety of households, including single and double parent families, and people living alone. The research found that living in a food desert did not, by itself, impose food access difficulties. Far more important was the access to independent transport to shops. A number of features were identified in this research including reliance on supermarkets, difficulties with public transport, and the provision of government schemes and systems that for some made food shopping much easier. The research suggests that food access problems in Adelaide are not so much the product of geographic distance between home and shop, as the social or welfare networks that allow people to access private transport. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.