{"id":441043,"date":"2010-03-17T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleglobaljustice.org\/?p=841"},"modified":"2010-03-17T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:43:07","slug":"us-food-environment-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/441043","title":{"rendered":"US Food Environment Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See below for information about a new US Food Environment Atlas, created to gather and present\u00a0statistical information on access to food in the US.<\/p>\n<p>From the USDA Food Environment Atlas website:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The U.S. Food Environment Atlas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Food environment factors\u2014such as store\/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics\u2014interact to influence food choices and diet quality. Research is beginning to document the complexity of these interactions, but more is needed to identify causal relationships and effective policy interventions.<\/p>\n<h4>Objectives of the Atlas:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>To assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality<\/li>\n<li>To provide a spatial overview of a community\u2019s ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This tool maps:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Access and proximity to grocery stores<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Availability of food stores<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Availability of restaurants<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Expenditures of food at restaurants<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Food assistance<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Food eaten at home<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Food insecurity<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Food prices (at stores, not restaurants)<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Food taxes<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Health<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Local foods<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Physical activity levels &amp; outlets<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Socioeconomic characteristics<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nClick here to view the tool: <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.ers.usda.gov\/FoodAtlas\/\">http:\/\/maps.ers.usda.gov\/FoodAtlas\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See below for information about a new US Food Environment Atlas, created to gather and present\u00a0statistical information on access to food in the US. From the USDA Food Environment Atlas website: The U.S. Food Environment Atlas Food environment factors\u2014such as store\/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics\u2014interact to influence food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}