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Typically in many urban cities and neighborhoods across the U.S., low-wealth citizens in low-income communities have had limited access to healthy foods and food sources and thus their food intake are forced to depend heavily on low-quality food suppliers like convenient stores and fast food restaurants. Notably, such food insecurity concerns are especially prevalent in minority communities. The lack of access to healthy and affordable foods is not a natural and accidental phenomenon but the result of policy decisions made at multiple levels by multiple actors. Although a growing number of scholars and practitioners are involved in this “food desserts” issue, there is still a need of more academic research not just on identifying communities with no or distant grocery stores, but also assessing the impact of the lack of food security on health disparity at the local and community levels. In this paper, we examine how people in communities have been affected by inadequate access to healthy foods using cases from Durham, North Carolina which has been plagued by food deserts. We also examine how this unequal distribution of food access has aggravated health disparity status regarding various health-related outcomes at the individual and community levels. Based on the review of the current policy actions to eradicating food deserts, specifically in the city of Durham, North Carolina, we suggest several public policy recommendations for providing better access to healthier foods while developing stable food environments, particularly thorough a public-private partnership as a more efficient and equitable delivery mechanism of healthy and affordable foods to such underserved communities.

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Abstract
 Introduction
 Prevalence of Food Deserts
  United States
  State of North Carolina
  City of Durham, North Carolina
 Health Implications of Food Deserts
 Current Policy Actions
 Public-Private Partnerships as an Effective Solution
 Recommendations for Durham, North Carolina
 References

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저자

• Keren R. Campbell [ North Carolina Central University, USA ]
• Terri Lawson [ North Carolina Central University, USA ]
• Dohyeong Kim [ North Carolina Central University, USA ]

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• 간행물명

  Journal of Safety and Crisis Management

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  월간

• pISSN

  2234-2214

• 수록기간

  2011~2026

• 십진분류

  KDC 350 DDC 351