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Urban Food and Urban Community: A Case for Reinvention

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Metropolitan; Municipal; Civic; Citified; Public; Non-rural; Central

Operational Definitions of Key Concept

Food insecurity: a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food (USDA 2020).

Socioeconomic status (SES): the social standing or class of an individual or group… measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation (American Psychological Association 2020).

Food deserts: regions of the country (featuring) large proportions of households with low incomes, inadequate access to transportation, and a limited number of food retailers providing fresh produce and healthy groceries for affordable prices (Deener 2017).

Food swamps: a spatial metaphor to describe neighborhoods where fast food and junk food inundate healthy alternatives (Cooksey-Stowers et al. 2017).

Morbidity:the state of being symptomatic or unhealthy for a disease or condition… usually represented or estimated using prevalence or incidence (Hernandez...

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