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Increase of healthy food accessibility within low-income communities in New York City

Food is important in the live because it provides nutriment to our organism. However, it is not every food that is healthy for the organism. Healthy food is important to health and access to healthy food is important factor to determine health outcome. In 21th century, the healthy food is rare commodity in America, and particularly in low-income community in New York City. Indeed, many Americans have difficulty getting healthy food like fresh fruits and vegetables in their diet particularly for those who are living in low-income neighborhood with less access to healthy and affordable groceries. In 2014 New York City had an estimated 1,370,530 individuals who had not access to healthy food according to statistics from food bank of New York City. Most of those individuals were in low-income communities.

Inaccessibility to healthy food within low-income community in New York City constitutes a health inequity that need to be fixed. Some of the factors that can explain this inaccessibility are the rareness of healthy grocery, the unaffordability of the healthy food is they exist, the low level of education about link between health foo and health of the community members and the low-socio-economic status of the community member. A need of intervention is necessary to address this health inequity. The intervention should be more at upstream level by focusing on education, making more available and affordable healthy, creating more economic opportunity to increase the incomes of the community members.