Food Access, Food Insecurity, and Gun Violence: Examining a Complex Relationship.

Autor: Miller KR; Division Trauma/Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 550 S Jackson St, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA. keith.miller@louisville.edu., Jones CM; Division of Transplant, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 550 S Jackson St, Louisville, KY, USA, 40202., McClave SA; Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA., Christian V; Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA., Adamson P; Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA., Neel DR; Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA., Bozeman M; Division Trauma/Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 550 S Jackson St, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA., Benns MV; Division Trauma/Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 550 S Jackson St, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Current nutrition reports [Curr Nutr Rep] 2021 Dec; Vol. 10 (4), pp. 317-323. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 21.
DOI: 10.1007/s13668-021-00378-w
Abstrakt: Purpose of Review: Food insecurity and gun violence are timely and relevant public health issues impacting many regions within the USA with a potential association. Terminology surrounding food access and food security can be confusing, which is important to understand when examining the relationship between these issues and gun violence.
Recent Findings: Food insecurity is an individual level risk factor that appears to correlate with an increased rate of exposure and future involvement in violence. Food deserts represent geographic regions with limited access to food but do not necessarily represent regions with high prevalence of food insecurity. Although both food insecurity and food deserts in urban regions have been linked with increased incidence of gun violence, a high prevalence of food insecurity was found to be more predictive. A high prevalence of food insecurity in urban regions likely serves as a marker for socioeconomic disadvantage and intentional disinvestment. These regions are predictably associated with a higher incidence of interpersonal gun violence. Food deserts in rural areas have not, to date, been shown to correlate with interpersonal gun violence. Urban food insecurity and gun violence are both likely the byproduct of structural violence. Despite the significant overlap and similar contributors, the application of the public health framework in addressing these two issues has historically been quite different.
(© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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