The grocery gap: food retail outlets mapping and reorganization for promoting healthy diets Allison Karpyn, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Research in Education & Social Policy, Assistant Professor of Education - University of Delaware
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The document summarizes efforts to map food access disparities and promote healthy diets through increasing access to supermarkets. A task force used GIS maps to identify areas with limited supermarket access and higher rates of diet-related diseases. This informed recommendations to approve funding for 88 new grocery stores in underserved communities, creating jobs and tax revenue while improving access for 400,000 residents. Similar public-private financing initiatives were established in several other states and nationally to systematically address gaps in healthy food access.
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The grocery gap: food retail outlets mapping and reorganization for promoting healthy diets Allison Karpyn, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Research in Education & Social Policy, Assistant Professor of Education - University of Delaware
- 2. FOOD RETAIL OUTLETS MAPPING AND REORGANIZATION FOR PROMOTING HEALTHY DIETS The grocery gap: Allison Karpyn, PhD Karpyn@udel.edu
- 3. Changing Access in Philadelphia, Conduct Geographic Analysis The problem: Disparities in access to healthy food & rising noncommunicable disease The Food Trust solution: Task force grounded by GIS maps - Where supermarkets are, are not - Poverty - Mortality, diet related diseases - Find “areas of greatest need”
- 4. Convene Task Force & Advocate for Recommendations Allison Karpyn et al. Health Aff 2010;29:473-480
- 5. Bridging the Food Access Gap Supply Demand Access Education & Marketing Quantity ofstores Locations Quality:Store& Product Price Incentives ExperientialEd. Cooking,Growing Product Mix Healthyfood advertising Limitjunkfood advertising Availability & Affordability
- 6. Pennsylvania Results • 88 new or improved grocery stores approved for funding in underserved communities • 1.67 million square feet of retail space • 5,000 jobs created or retained • 400,000 of the state’s underserved residents reached • $190 million total project costs resulting from $30 million in state seed money • $540,000 increase in local tax revenue from a single store in Philadelphia
- 7. National Expansion: Establishing Effective Public-Private Financing Efforts FEDERAL: • Federal Healthy Food Financing Initiative $169 Million dispersed since 2011 STATE/LOCAL: • New Jersey ($20 mil) • California ($270 mil) • LA ($14 mil) • New York ($30 mil) • New Orleans ($14 mil) • Illinois ($13 mil) • Colorado (7.1 mil) • Ohio ($5 mil) • Massachusetts ($100,000 + $6 mil) • Michigan Good Food Fund ($3 million +)
- 8. Increasing Healthy Food Access: • START with Maps • Convene High-Level Stakeholders • Understand Barriers • Public-Private Partnerships & Financing Maps reveal inequities in food access, improve understanding of the problem across sectors and support targeted initiatives.