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Healthy Retail as a Strategy for Improving Food Security and the Built Environment in San Francisco
Author(s) -
Meredith Minkler,
Jessica Estrada,
Shelley Dyer,
Susana Hennessey-Lavery,
Patricia Wakimoto,
Jennifer Falbe
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2019.305000
Subject(s) - supplemental nutrition assistance program , environmental health , healthy food , low income , business , food security , marketing , food insecurity , gerontology , medicine , socioeconomics , geography , economics , food science , chemistry , archaeology , agriculture
In low-income neighborhoods without supermarkets, lack of healthy food access often is exacerbated by the saturation of small corner stores with tobacco and unhealthy foods and beverages. We describe a municipal healthy retail program in San Francisco, California, focusing on the role of a local coalition in program implementation and outcomes in the city's low income Tenderloin neighborhood. By incentivizing selected corner stores to become healthy retailers, and through community engagement and cross-sector partnerships, the program is seeing promising outcomes, including a "ripple effect" of improvement across nonparticipating neighborhood stores.

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