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Meredith Minkler1, Jessica Estrada1, Shelley Dyer1
1Meredith Minkler, is with the School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley. Jessica Estrada is with and Susana Hennessey-Lavery was with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Community Health Equity and Promotion Branch, San Francisco, CA. Shelley Dyer is with the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, Tenderloin Healthy Corner Store Coalition, San Francisco. Patricia Wakimoto is with the Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California, Davis. Jennifer Falbe is with the Human Development and Family Studies Unit, Department of Human Ecology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis.
Abstract:
In low-income neighborhoods without supermarkets, lack of healthy food access often is exacerbated by the saturation of small corner stores with tobacco and unhealthy foods and beverages. We describe a municipal healthy retail program in San Francisco, California, focusing on the role of a local coalition in program implementation and outcomes in the city's low income Tenderloin neighborhood. By incentivizing selected corner stores to become healthy retailers, and through community engagement and cross-sector partnerships, the program is seeing promising outcomes, including a "ripple effect" of improvement across nonparticipating neighborhood stores.
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