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Access to healthy foods: part II
— Food poverty and shopping deserts: what are the implications for health promotion policy and practice? | | Author(s) | Tim Lang, Martin Caraher |
| Journal title | Health Education Journal, vol 57, no 3, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp 202-211 |
| Keywords | Food ; Diet ; Shops ; Accessibility ; Poor elderly ; Health [elderly] ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Findings reported using the Health Education Authority (HEA) 1993 Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS) are in line with a complex picture emerging from research on food behaviour. This article puts that study and wider literature into a public policy context. Two traditions of approaching food and health-related behaviour are discernible: one attempts to improve health through individual action, the other through social structures. The HLS, with data based on self-reporting, suggests that public policy on food and health should change direction. Food divisions in society are complex, but are associated with poor access, transport, confidence, low income, gender divisions, and different priorities. Concern about `food deserts' - areas with poor food facilities - suggests that health promotion should rethink strategy. Health promoters should consider alliances with professions and interest in which they have hitherto seen little relevance. Rather than focusing only on alliances with the private sector, public agencies should consider working with town planners, environmental health bodies, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Access to food is too important to be monopolised by any one sector or group. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981020220 A |
| Classmark | YP: CFD: WWE: 5CA: F:W6: CC: TM2 |
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