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DOI	10.1016/j.jth.2021.101245
	Access to healthy food in urban and rural areas: An empirical analysis
	Losada-Rojas, Lisa Lorena; Ke, Yue; Pyrialakou, V. Dimitra; Gkritza, Konstantina
通讯作者	Losada-Rojas, LL (corresponding author), Purdue Univ, 550 Stadium Mall Dr, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT & HEALTH
ISSN	2214-1405
出版年	2021
卷号	23
英文摘要	Introduction: Health problems such as obesity and related illnesses have been attributed to the lack of both spatial and economic access to healthy food. Even though access to healthy food in urban areas has been widely studied, access to healthy food in rural areas has not received much attention to date. Rural residents usually face similar accessibility challenges as urban populations but at a greater magnitude. The lack of access to reliable transportation in rural areas acts as a barrier to accessing healthy food, especially for individuals that might not have access to an automobile. Methodology: This paper uses a cost-based accessibility measure and estimates spatial econometric models to identify the differences between healthy food accessibility in rural and urban areas considering multiple transportation modes available in those areas. Furthermore, the paper explores the relationship between healthy food accessibility and the characteristics of the built environment that can be used to advise planning decisions and policy. Four study areas in Indiana were selected to demonstrate the study methodology. Results: Both the location of healthy food providers and infrastructure that allows access by different modes are spatially clustered. Urban area residents incur a lower average cost to reach healthy food, especially when driving and walking are considered, compared to rural areas. The spatial models' results suggested that built environment characteristics, especially land-use characteristics, influence the cost to reach healthy food providers in urban areas, regardless of the mode. Conclusions: The solution to facilitate access to healthy food providers is not a one-size-fits-all approach. However, transportation innovations such as mobile markets, ridesharing, drone delivery, and autonomous delivery services can serve to bring closer healthy food to the population that cannot access it by their current means. This paper's methodology involves publicly available data that allow for easy replication by any planning agency.
英文关键词	Access Healthy food Rural Urban Built environment Spatial modeling
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000703544200003
WOS关键词	SPATIAL ACCESSIBILITY ; PUBLIC-TRANSIT ; DESERTS ; TRANSPORTATION ; BARRIERS ; ENVIRONMENTS ; OUTLETS ; STORES ; FRUIT ; TIME
WOS类目	Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Transportation
WOS研究方向	Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Transportation
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/364060
作者单位	[Losada-Rojas, Lisa Lorena; Gkritza, Konstantina] Purdue Univ, 550 Stadium Mall Dr, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA; [Ke, Yue] Argonne Natl Lab, 9700 S Cass Ave, Lemont, IL 60439 USA; [Pyrialakou, V. Dimitra] West Virginia Univ, 395 Evansdale Dr, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Losada-Rojas, Lisa Lorena,Ke, Yue,Pyrialakou, V. Dimitra,et al. Access to healthy food in urban and rural areas: An empirical analysis[J],2021,23.
APA	Losada-Rojas, Lisa Lorena,Ke, Yue,Pyrialakou, V. Dimitra,&Gkritza, Konstantina.(2021).Access to healthy food in urban and rural areas: An empirical analysis.JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT & HEALTH,23.
MLA	Losada-Rojas, Lisa Lorena,et al."Access to healthy food in urban and rural areas: An empirical analysis".JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT & HEALTH 23(2021).