Mapping the Food Environment to Inform Multi-Dimensional Intervention Strategies to Enhance Community Health and Well-Being
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2016-05-03
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
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The objectives of this project were to develop an understanding of the food environments of diverse populations living in different neighborhoods, and provide community partners and policy makers with reliable data pertaining to food security, food access, food patterns and behaviors, health conditions, and neighborhoods characteristics. The project ultimately seeks to integrate localized primary data into mapping tools to better spatial, temporal, cultural, economic, personal, social and service delivery domains.
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IMPACT. 1: 25 OSU student volunteers and 2 community members administered 200 in-person surveys at 15 community sites (with an additional 700 online). 10 students participated in additional data entry, food store data collection, and data analysis. -- 2. Descriptive infographics were created for 10 Columbus-area zip codes describing disparities in food security, food access, and health. These are being distributed through the extensive community network for use in grant preparation, baseline for program development, and to inform policy makers. -- 3. The Food Mapping Team has published four papers regarding community-university engagement and research processes, communitybased food strategies to address food security in households with children, and a comprehensive state of the food mapping literature.
OSU PARTNERS: College of Social Work; Glenn College of Public Affairs; Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; College of Arts and Sciences- Geography; College of Medicine; Medical Dietetics, Health Sciences; College of Engineering/Knowlton School of Architecture (City and Regional Planning); Center for Urban and Regional Analysis; College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; Horticulture and Crop Science; Agroecosystems Management Project; OARDC; OSU Extension
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Columbus Public Health; Local Matters; Fresh Foods Here Healthy Corner; Store Initiative; Franklinton Gardens; Mid-Ohio Foodbank
PRIMARY CONTACT: Michelle Kaiser (kaiser.267@osu.edu)
OSU PARTNERS: College of Social Work; Glenn College of Public Affairs; Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; College of Arts and Sciences- Geography; College of Medicine; Medical Dietetics, Health Sciences; College of Engineering/Knowlton School of Architecture (City and Regional Planning); Center for Urban and Regional Analysis; College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; Horticulture and Crop Science; Agroecosystems Management Project; OARDC; OSU Extension
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Columbus Public Health; Local Matters; Fresh Foods Here Healthy Corner; Store Initiative; Franklinton Gardens; Mid-Ohio Foodbank
PRIMARY CONTACT: Michelle Kaiser (kaiser.267@osu.edu)
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Engaged Scholars, v. 4 (2016).