ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
Relationships between Vacant Homes and Food Swamps: A Longitudinal Study of an Urban Food Environment.
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- Field validity and spatial accuracy of Food Standards Agency Food Hygiene Rating scheme data for England.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Trends and sociodemographic disparities in sugary drink consumption among adults in New York City, 2009-2017.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
- U.S. county "food swamp" severity and hospitalization rates among adults with diabetes: A nonlinear relationship.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
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Research indicates that living in neighborhoods with high concentrations of boarded-up vacant homes is associated with premature mortality due to cancer and diabetes, but the mechanism for this relationship is unclear. Boarded-up housing may indirectly impact residents' health by affecting their food environment. We evaluated the association between changes in vacancy rates and changes in the density of unhealthy food outlets as a proportion of all food outlets, termed the food swamp index, in Baltimore, MD (USA) from 2001 to 2012, using neighborhood fixed-effects linear regression models. Over the study period, the average food swamp index increased from 93.5 to 95.3 percentage points across all neighborhoods. Among non-African American neighborhoods, increases in the vacancy rate were associated with statistically significant decreases in the food swamp index (b = -0.38; 90% CI, -0.64 to -0.12;
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