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Quantifying and visualizing access to healthy food in a rural area of Australia: A spatial analysis

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posted on 2023-05-18, 13:27 authored by Le, Q, Hoang NguyenHoang Nguyen, Terry, DR, Dieters, S, Stuart AucklandStuart Auckland, Long, G
A Geographical Information System (GIS) using ArcGIS tools was adopted to implement three types of spatial analysis: coverage, density and proximity, to evaluate the geographical access to healthy food of the populations in Dorset Municipality, Tasmania, Australia. Data on food outlets, the aggregated socioeconomic disadvantage index, locations, income and population were collected using the Tasmanian Food Outlet Audit and Tasmanian Healthy Food Basket tools. Spatial autocorrelation was conducted where appropriate to examine the relationship between locations and food access. Healthy food outlets were concentrated in the central areas, areas in proximity to the national road and areas of dense population. Their locations also favored the more socio-economically deprived or disadvantaged areas (Moran’s Index = 0.924, z-score = 5.187, p-value = 0.00 < 0.05). Spatial identification of food deserts in Dorset has been a pioneering attempt to visualize areas with the highest demand for improvement in healthy food access and may be applicable to other areas with similar characteristics.

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Publication title

Food Security: the science, sociology and economics of food production and access to food

Volume

7

Issue

5

Pagination

1017-1029

ISSN

1876-4517

Department/School

School of Health Sciences

Publisher

Springer

Place of publication

Netherlands

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Copyright 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and International Society for Plant Pathology

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Evaluation of health and support services not elsewhere classified

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