"We Want to Eat and be Healthy just like Everybody Else:" How Social Infrastructures Affect Nutrition Equity in a Racialized Urban Community in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food security and nutrition equity, 2 social determinants of health, are impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the racialization of urban communities. Few studies to date have examined how the use of social infrastructures in the United States during COVID-19 affected the ability to achieve food security and nutrition equity.

Objectives

To describe how the use of social infrastructures impacts food security and nutrition equity in a majority Black and urban community in the United States.

Methods

Semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with 40 low-income, urban, and predominately Black people living in Buffalo, New York in May-July 2022.A thematic analysis using a phronetic iterative approach informed by the Social Ecolo

SUBMITTER: Headrick G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10937309 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature