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Category Archives: Food Environment
The Links Between Vibrant Retail Business Environments and Resident’s Health
We have completed a series of studies showing that neighborhood access to small and medium size retail businesses that provide for community member’s living needs – the goods and services we need to function, live and thrive, such as banks, … Continue reading
Eliza Kinsey launches new research on addressing food insecurity among chronic kidney disease patients
Not quite about the built environment, but BEH member Eliza Kinsey was just awarded a grant from the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics to test the feasibility, acceptability, and likely effect of a produce prescription intervention … Continue reading
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Neighborhood Food Environment and Birth Weight Outcomes in New York City
Completing our trilogy of papers on neighborhood built environments and pregnancy and birth outcomes, we published a paper in the June issue of JAMA Network Open showing links between neighborhood food environments and birth weight in NYC. Babies born either … Continue reading
Mapping Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 11% of households and nearly 16% of families with children were food insecure. With schools closed and families out of work, food insecurity rates are expected to skyrocket in the coming months. During the crisis, … Continue reading
How did the unhealthy food environment evolve in New York City?
BEH collaborator Nico Berger and BEH member Gina Lovasi recently led a study on changes in the unhealthy retail food environment in New York City. The study found that the number of food outlets selling calorie-dense foods such as pizza … Continue reading
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Neighborhood Conditions Influence the Ability of Diabetics to Control Their Blood Sugar
In collaboration with researchers from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene we recently published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology showing that diabetics living in neighborhoods with more advantaged economic environments, greater walkability and … Continue reading
Strategies to Refine Annual Business Establishment Data across More than Two Decades
Analyses of place and health have been largely cross-sectional, and new challenges are faced as we wrangle longitudinal geographic data. Our group just published a manuscript detailing our work to clean and code data on all NYC metropolitan area businesses … Continue reading
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Food Environment Impact: Fast Food vs. Bodegas
In urban areas such as New York City, many corner stores (“bodegas”) offer prepared or ready-to-eat food. In studies of the food environment, researchers usually consider bodegas as grocery stores, and compare them with large stores such as supermarkets. But … Continue reading
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Food Environment and BMI in NYC
We have continued our work studying the food environment in NYC, developing measures that take a more ecosystem perspective on neighborhood food environments. For each zip code, we measured the density of food outlets, the proportion of retail food outlets … Continue reading
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Neighborhood Fast Food Restaurants, Economic Investment and Adolescent Obesity
Many researchers, public health officials and policy makers suggest that neighborhood characteristics may influence dietary and physical activity patterns and thus influence obesity risk. Because of the evidence that fast food consumption is linked to obesity, researchers interested in neighborhood … Continue reading
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