NOVEL NUTRITION EQUITY METHOD: OLDER ADULT NUTRITION EQUITY INDEX (NEI) DEVELOPED IN HEALTH ABC & EXPANDING TO PHRESH
Aarohee Fulay, Tamara Dubowitz, Samaneh Farsijani, Kerri Freeland, Jimmie Roberts, Andrea Rosso, Denise Houston, Elsa Strotmeyer · 2024
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Aarohee Fulay and seven co-authors built in 2024 an index that grades how fairly older adults can reach healthy food. The index blends food security, physical access and personal limits, drawn from a long-running health study in Pittsburgh and Memphis. Older adults with low or middling equity scores ate worse than those with high scores. Once race was counted as a marker of structural forces, the link faded.
That fading suggests race-linked structures shape who the index flags. The team is now extending the work to two largely Black Pittsburgh neighborhoods with fresh survey data. New items will add distance to main shops and more function measures. The authors aim to expose which structural pieces of food access most need fixing. Their index treats healthy eating as an equity problem, not a willpower one.
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| CREATOR | Aarohee Fulay, Tamara Dubowitz, Samaneh Farsijani, Kerri Freeland, Jimmie Roberts, Andrea Rosso, Denise Houston, Elsa Strotmeyer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |