Improving Fruit and Vegetable Accessibility, Purchasing, and Consumption to Advance Nutrition Security and Health Equity in the United States
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. A Tale of Structural Inequities: Fruit and Vegetable Accessibility and Purchasing
3. U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A Slow Moving Needle
4. Special Issue Contributions to Advancing Nutrition Security and Health Equity
4.1. Thrifty Food Plan
4.2. Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program
4.3. Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, and Children
5. Future Directions
“Food systems enabling fruits and vegetables in healthy diets are not only a technical issue, but bring up very real political, social and ethical questions that societies will have to address, alongside a reliance on evidence [76].”
- What are the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, initially and over time, on FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption among socially and economically disadvantaged populations?
- How does structural racism shape FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption among socially and economically disadvantaged populations?
- What is the landscape of FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption practices by gender identification and sexual orientation?
- What intersectional factors influence FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption among socially and economically disadvantaged populations?
- What are the impacts of policies designed to improve FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption among socially and economically disadvantaged populations in various contexts?
- What strategies improve socially and economically disadvantaged populations’ knowledge of and engagement with programs designed to improve FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption?
- How do wider social policies (expanding beyond food or nutrition focus) influence FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption among socially and economically disadvantaged populations?
- Disaggregated data by race/ethnicity, gender identification, and sexual orientation, for example, are required to understand experiences with FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption and impacts of responsive practice and policy solutions.
- Transdisciplinary approaches are needed to explore social, cultural, and environmental linkages with FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption among socially and economically disadvantaged populations.
- Standardized measures and approaches are warranted, when possible, across research, practice, and policy investigations to understand wide-scale impact.
- Strategies to improve political will to address structural barriers to FV accessibility, purchasing, and consumption among socially and economically disadvantaged populations are required.
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Houghtaling, B.; Greene, M.; Parab, K.V.; Singleton, C.R. Improving Fruit and Vegetable Accessibility, Purchasing, and Consumption to Advance Nutrition Security and Health Equity in the United States. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 11220. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811220
Houghtaling B, Greene M, Parab KV, Singleton CR. Improving Fruit and Vegetable Accessibility, Purchasing, and Consumption to Advance Nutrition Security and Health Equity in the United States. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(18):11220. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811220
Chicago/Turabian StyleHoughtaling, Bailey, Matthew Greene, Kaustubh V. Parab, and Chelsea R. Singleton. 2022. "Improving Fruit and Vegetable Accessibility, Purchasing, and Consumption to Advance Nutrition Security and Health Equity in the United States" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 18: 11220. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811220