Introduction
This is the household-level lack of consistent access to nutritious, affordable, and safe food.
What is food insecurity?
According to the 2021 study, this percentage of Bronx children lived in food-insecure households.
What is 58.5%?
These households experience the greatest burden of food insecurity.
Who are low-income households?
Federal SNAP eligibility often fails to account for this aspect of living in New York City.
What is the high cost of living?
The project proposes improving these two major areas to reduce food insecurity.
What are accessibility and affordability?
Food choices in the Bronx are primarily determined by these three factors.
What are cost, convenience, and availability?
Bronx residents living in food-insecure households had this much higher odds of obesity or overweight
What is 1.58 times higher odds?
These three groups, in addition to low-income families, are disproportionately affected.
Who are Black and Hispanic communities, children, and older adults?
In neighborhoods like Mott Haven and Melrose, there are approximately this many bodegas for every supermarket.
What is 25 to 1?
This initiative encourages neighborhood bodegas to stock healthier foods.
What is the Healthy Bodega Initiative?
Simply increasing access to healthy food is insufficient unless this second issue is also addressed.
What is affordability?
Approximately this proportion of Bronx residents report experiencing food insecurity.
What is 1 in 4 residents?
Children ages 2–5 have this increased risk due to inadequate nutrition.
What is a 1.57-fold increased risk of poor physical development?
DAILY DOUBLE
These households often earn too much to qualify for SNAP but still cannot consistently afford healthy food.
Who are the working poor?
Name the three major recommendations made in the conclusion of the presentation.
What are: