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FOOD RETAIL OUTLETS MAPPING AND REORGANIZATION FOR PROMOTING HEALTHY DIETS
The grocery gap:
Allison Karpyn, PhD [email protected]
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”
Convene Task Force & Advocate for Recommendations
Allison Karpyn et al. Health Aff 2010;29:473-480
Bridging the Food Access Gap
Supply Demand
Access Education & Marketing
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Availability & Affordability
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
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 +)
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.
