Food and Nutrition Security as Social Determinants of Health: Fostering Collective Impact to Build Equity
Duncan Y Amegbletor1, Danny Goldberg2, Derek A Pope1
1Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Meharry Medical College, 1005 Dr. D.B. Todd, Jr. Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37208, USA.
Abstract:
An overview of the state of the American diet, how it relates to public health outcomes and the obesity epidemic, and how it arises from the policy and infrastructure that have been developed over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries. The article concludes by laying out concrete solutions for urban revitalization, providing people in underserved communities sovereignty over their food supply, and work with multi-stakeholder cooperatives to overcome the effects of food insecurity and poor diet quality.
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