Journal
HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102491
Keywords
Food price; Food availability; Neighborhood; Moving to opportunity; Public housing
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Funding
- National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health [R01CA132896]
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- MacArthur Foundation
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R01-HD40404]
- National Institute of Mental Health [R01-HD40444]
- National Science Foundation [SBE-9876337, BCS-0091854]
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Spencer Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation
- William T. Grant Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- NICHD [5P30-HD32030]
- Princeton Industrial Relations Section
- Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
- Princeton Center for Health and Wellbeing
- National Bureau of Economic Research
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This study of 3,473 participants from the Moving to Opportunity experiment found that higher food prices and neighborhood poverty were associated with lower fruit or vegetable consumption. Therefore, policies and programs addressing food prices should be implemented and evaluated for their impact on fruit and vegetable consumption.
The food environment has been associated with fruit and vegetable consumption, however many studies utilize cross-sectional research designs. This study examined 3,473 participants in the Moving to Opportunity experiment, who were randomized into groups that affected where they lived. The relationship between the built environment, food prices and neighborhood poverty, assessed over four to seven years, on fruit or vegetable consumption was examined using instrumental variable analysis. Higher food prices and neighborhood poverty were associated with lower fruit or vegetable consumption. Policies and programs that address food prices should be implemented and evaluated for their effects on fruit and vegetable consumption.
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