The grocery gap: food retail outlets mapping and reorganization for promoting healthy diets Allison Karpyn, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Research in Education & Social Policy, Assistant Professor of Education - University of Delaware
The document summarizes efforts to map food access disparities and promote healthy diets through increasing access to supermarkets. A task force used GIS maps to identify areas with limited supermarket access and higher rates of diet-related diseases. This informed recommendations to approve funding for 88 new grocery stores in underserved communities, creating jobs and tax revenue while improving access for 400,000 residents. Similar public-private financing initiatives were established in several other states and nationally to systematically address gaps in healthy food access.
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The grocery gap: food retail outlets mapping and reorganization for promoting healthy diets Allison Karpyn, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Research in Education & Social Policy, Assistant Professor of Education - University of Delaware
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2. FOOD RETAIL OUTLETS MAPPING AND
REORGANIZATION FOR PROMOTING
HEALTHY DIETS
The grocery gap:
Allison Karpyn, PhD
Karpyn@udel.edu
3. 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”
4. Convene Task Force & Advocate for Recommendations
Allison Karpyn et al. Health Aff 2010;29:473-480
6. 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
7. 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 +)
8. 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.