Publications And Factsheets

Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Promising Strategies to Improve Access to Fresh, Healthy Food and Transform Communities, a PolicyLink report, lifts up emerging solutions that can improve health, spark economic development, and help transform underserved communities into communities of opportunity.

GroceryGapThe Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Healthy Food and Why It Matters.  PolicyLink and The Food Trust present The Grocery Gap, the most comprehensive review of studies of healthy food access and its impacts -- 132 studies conducted in the United States in the past 20 years. 

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"There is no question that low-income communities of color with poor access to healthy foods are getting hit worst by the obesity and diabetes crises. If we are to close this health gap, we must expand access to fresh and healthy food options in underserved neighborhoods. Both the First Lady's national childhood obesity campaign and President Obama's 2011 budget signal a strong commitment to bringing healthy food—and good, long-term jobs—to communities that have been without for far too long."  
 
Judith Bell, PolicyLink President

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