Community Design for Healthy Eating: How Land Use and Transportation Solutions Can Help


 

Publication Date: March 2007

Publisher: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Author(s): B. McCann

Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Abstract:

Early evidence reveals the built environment likely plays a role in obesity, but this role plays out in tandem with demographic patterns. For example, development of metropolitan areas has resulted in poor access to healthy foods for low-income people living in low-income neighborhoods. This paper explores three ways the built environment affects food access.