拒绝访问:德克萨斯州哈里斯县的药房和食品沙漠的打开包装
Patrick Dang1, Lulu Xu2, Eunice Olajimi3
1Humana Integrated Health Systems Sciences Institute, University of Houston, TX | University of Houston College of Optometry, Houston, TX.
PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.)
|January 14, 2026
概括
药房沙漠和食品沙漠不成比例地影响低收入和多元化的社区. 大约20%的邮政编码面临着对药店和营养食品的限制,影响健康结果和慢性疾病管理.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 健康的社会经济决定因素
背景情况:
- 药房沙漠和食品沙漠是不同的地理区域,对基本资源的获取有限,影响药物服药和营养安全.
- 受这些进入障碍影响的弱势群体不成比例,导致健康结果较差.
- 药房沙漠和食品沙漠的交叉点仍然未被充分探索,尽管它们对公共健康的联合影响.
研究的目的:
- 研究药房沙漠和食品沙漠之间的空间重叠.
- 分析经历药房和营养食品的双重有限接入的地区的社会经济和人口统计特征.
主要方法:
- 使用了社区/零售药房位置数据和食品获取数据集.
- 创建了每1000人口的药房分布图与Food Access,将邮政编码根据接入级别划分为九个类别.
- 分析了基于中位收入比率,贫困水平和多样性的有限访问权限的邮政编码.
主要成果:
- 大约三分之一的邮政编码几乎没有药房,另外三分之一的邮政编码几乎没有食物.
- 大约20%的邮政编码经历了低药店和低食品获取.
- 对这两种资源的低准入集中在贫困率和多样性较高的邮政编码中,这表明药店和食品准入之间存在正相关性.
结论:
- 药店和营养食品的有限获取对弱势群体造成了重大负担,加剧了慢性疾病管理的挑战.
- 调查结果强调需要有针对性的干预措施来解决这些双重资源短缺问题,并改善健康公平.
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