ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2021
Changes in accessibility to emergency and community food services during COVID-19 and implications for low income populations in Hamilton, Ontario.
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- Food-related worry and food bank use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: results from a nationally representative multi-round study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Impacts of community-level grassroots organizations on household food security during the COVID-19 epidemic period in China.International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR · 2023Article
- Introducing spatial availability, a singly-constrained measure of competitive accessibility.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
In this paper we analyze the changes in accessibility to emergency and community food services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the City of Hamilton, Ontario. Many of these food services are the last line of support for households facing food insecurity; as such, their relevance cannot be ignored in the midst of the economic upheaval caused by the pandemic. Our analysis is based on the application of balanced floating catchment areas and concentrates on households with lower incomes (<CAD40,000, approximately the Low Income Cutoff Value for a city of Hamilton's size). We find that accessibility was low to begin with in suburban and exurban parts of the city; furthermore, about 14% of locations originally available in Hamilton closed during the pandemic, further reducing accessibility. The impact of closures on the level of service of the remaining facilities, and on accessibility, was disproportionate, with system-wide losses exceeding 39%. Those losses were geographically and demographically uneven. While every part of the city faced a reduction in accessibility, inner suburbs fared worse in terms of loss of accessibility. As well, children (age ≤18) appear to have been impacted the most.
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