Examining Geographic Food Access, Food Insecurity, and Urbanicity among Diverse, Low-Income Participants in Austin, Texas

Kathryn M. Janda, Nalini Ranjit, Deborah Salvo, Deanna M. Hoelscher, Aida Nielsen, Joy Casnovsky and Alexandra van den Berg
Additional contact information
Kathryn M. Janda: UTHealth School of Public Health, Austin, TX 78701, USA
Nalini Ranjit: UTHealth School of Public Health, Austin, TX 78701, USA
Deborah Salvo: Prevention Research Center, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
Deanna M. Hoelscher: UTHealth School of Public Health, Austin, TX 78701, USA
Aida Nielsen: UTHealth School of Public Health, Austin, TX 78701, USA
Joy Casnovsky: Sustainable Food Center, Austin, TX 78702, USA
Alexandra van den Berg: UTHealth School of Public Health, Austin, TX 78701, USA

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 9, 1-12

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the association between geographic food access and food insecurity and the potential role of race/ethnicity, income, and urbanicity among a low-income, diverse sample in Central Texas. Utilizing a cross-sectional study design, secondary data analysis of an existing cohort was used to examine the association between food insecurity; geographic food access; and sociodemographic factors of race/ethnicity, income, urbanicity, and additional covariates using binomial logistic regression models. The existing cohort was recruited from lower-income communities in Travis County, Texas. The sample (N = 393) was predominantly Hispanic, lived in urban areas, and nearly 40% were food insecure. Geographic food access was not found to be significantly associated with food insecurity. However, rural residents had greater odds of being food insecure than urban residents. Also, participants who earned USD 45,000–64,999 and over USD 65,000 had lower odds of being food insecure than participants who earned under USD 25,000. These findings add to the inconsistent literature about the association between geographic food access and food insecurity and contribute to urbanicity and income disparities in food-insecurity literature. Future work should consider urbanicity, income, and utilize community-specific data to gain greater understanding of the association between geographic food access and food insecurity.

Keywords: food insecurity; geographic food access; health disparities; urbanicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/9/5108/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/9/5108/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:9:p:5108-:d:799699

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().