scholarly journals Measuring stocks of community wealth and their association with food systems efforts in rural and urban places

Food Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 102119
Author(s):  
Todd M. Schmit ◽  
Becca B.R. Jablonski ◽  
Alessandro Bonanno ◽  
Thomas G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Places

Differences in the implementation of kids save lives programme between students coming from rural and urban places of Thessaly region, Greece

Resuscitation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. e56
Author(s):  
Charalambos Parisis ◽  
Achilleas Bouletis ◽  
Dimitra-Dionysia Palla ◽  
Maria Ntaliani ◽  
Eirini Papa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Places

scholarly journals Place-based Inequality in “Energetic” Pain: The Price of Residence in Rural America

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311880303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazarus Adua ◽  
Ashley Beaird
Keyword(s):  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Residential Energy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Lower Educational Attainment

Despite the tendency for some to view rural life or living close to nature with nostalgia, the unpalatable truth is that rural America is beset with many problems, including lower incomes, higher poverty rates, limited access to well-paying jobs, higher morbidity and mortality rates, inadequate access to health care, and lower educational attainment. In this study, we question whether this palpable rural disadvantage extends to residential energy costs, a subject with serious implications for the well-being of households. Analyses of data spanning two decades show that rural households consistently spend more on residential energy than urban households, although they generally use less. This finding, which indicates the existence of energy cost inequality between rural and urban places, represents a kind of rural tax. Any sustained spikes in costs, which has happened in the past and would likely happen in the future, could portend significant access risks to rural households.

The Carnegie Dietary Survey of Interwar Britain

2015 ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Samantha A. Shave
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Social Medicine ◽  
Dietary Survey ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The University ◽  
Urban Places

This research note describes an under-used collection of papers which document interwar income, nutrition and health in Britain which were created in the administration of the Carnegie Dietary Survey by John Boyd-Orr in the Rowett Institute with funding from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. The survey was conducted in 16 rural and urban places across England and Scotland between 1937–9, and are now held at the Specialist Collections Centre at the University of Aberdeen. While the importance of the survey in informing knowledge about nutrition and the development of rationing has been acknowledged in the field of social medicine, the survey data has primarily been used by epidemiological scientists and economic historians. After outlining the survey's past influences and uses, this item details the possible ways the data could be used by social, economic and local population historians.

Disconnected, Not Polarized: Four Decades of the Rural-urban Interface in Mainstream Country Music

2020 ◽  
pp. 232949652096820
Author(s):  
Braden Leap ◽  
Courtney Heath
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Country Music ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Rural Places ◽  
Urban Places

Rural scholars have regularly analyzed media representations of rural communities, but there are a lack of analyses considering whether media representations of the rural-urban interface have transformed over the last 40 years as material connections and political divisions between rural and urban places intensified. This article presents a longitudinal analysis of portrayals of the rural-urban interface in mainstream country music from the 1980s to the 2010s. Examining the lyrics of over 800 weeks of songs that topped the Billboard charts, we find that representations of the material connections between rural and urban places have become less common. Specifically, portrayals of migrants crossing the interface have nearly disappeared from mainstream country. There was also a lack of evidence of growing polarization in mainstream country’s portrayals of rural and urban places. Rural places were generally depicted in idyllic terms in every decade, but urban places were also increasingly represented positively. These results indicate that the rural-urban interface portrayed by mainstream country does not align with previous research concerning the interface. In contrast to studies that highlight growing material connections and political divisions between rural and urban places, the interface depicted by mainstream country has become increasingly disconnected materially without becoming polarized politically.

scholarly journals Assessing Diet Quality of Indigenous Food Systems in Three Geographically Distinct Solomon Islands Sites (Melanesia, Pacific Islands)

Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Chris Vogliano ◽  
Jessica E. Raneri ◽  
Josephine Maelaua ◽  
Jane Coad ◽  
Carol Wham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diet Quality ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Urban Populations ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Rural And Urban

Indigenous Solomon Islanders, like many living in Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), are currently experiencing the global syndemic—the combined threat of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. This mixed-method study aimed to assess nutrition transitions and diet quality by comparing three geographically unique rural and urban indigenous Solomon Islands populations. Participants in rural areas sourced more energy from wild and cultivated foods; consumed a wider diversity of foods; were more likely to meet WHO recommendations of >400 g of non-starchy fruits and vegetables daily; were more physically active; and had significantly lower body fat, waist circumference, and body mass index (BMI) when compared to urban populations. Urban populations were found to have a reduced ability to self-cultivate agri-food products or collect wild foods, and therefore consumed more ultra-processed foods (classified as NOVA 4) and takeout foods, and overall had less diverse diets compared to rural populations. Clear opportunities to leverage traditional knowledge and improve the cultivation and consumption of underutilized species can assist in building more sustainable and resilient food systems while ensuring that indigenous knowledge and cultural preferences are respected.

Landscape Political Ecology: Rural-Urban Pattern of COVID-19 in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cletus Famous Nwankwo ◽  
Romanus U. Ayadiuno
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Demographic Dynamics ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Pattern ◽  
Demographic Attributes ◽  
Ecological Landscape ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Future Outbreak

Abstract The socio-ecological and political properties of rural and urban landscapes have been argued to produce the differentials in rural-urban health. However, the mechanism of the COVID-19 pattern in this socio-political-ecological perspective has not been understood in Africa. The study used spatial techniques to explore the pattern of urbanization-COVID-19 nexus in Nigeria. It has been argued that three elements (demographic dynamics, infrastructure or governance) typify the socio-political-ecological landscape of urban places. They shape the spread of infectious diseases. We explored the extent to which these factors predict the COVID-19 pattern in Nigeria. The study used data from Nigeria’s Centre for Diseases Control and the National Bureau of Statistics. The results indicate that more urban states in Nigeria tend to have higher COVID-19 cases than rural states. The COVID-19 pattern is best predicted by population dynamics more than other elements. The result indicates demographic attributes are more critical to surges in COVID-19 cases in Nigeria. Places with higher populations and densities will tend to have more spread of the virus than places with lesser populations and densities. Therefore, in a future outbreak, places of high densities should be given more attention to prevent further spread.

scholarly journals What is the real cost of our food? Implications for the environment, society and public health nutrition

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle O'Kane
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Sustainable Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Real Cost ◽  
Local Food System ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Social Environmental

AbstractThe current, globalised food system supplies ‘cheap’ food to a large proportion of the world's population, but with significant social, environmental and health costs that are poorly understood. The present paper examines the nature and extent of these costs for both rural and urban communities, by illustrating the financial pressures on food producers and manufacturers to produce cheap food, the disconnection people experience with how and where their food is produced, and the rise in obesity levels that plague the globe. The paper then proposes that community food systems may play an important role in mitigating the adverse environmental, economic and social effects of the dominant food system, by the use of more sustainable food production methods, the development of local economies and enabling closer connections between farmers and consumers. There are many opportunities for public health nutritionists to contribute to the local food system literature to ascertain whether these systems improve inequities, provide better access to healthy food and help stem the tide of rising global obesity levels. Public health nutritionists can play a key role in supporting people to become food citizens and to advocate for democratic and sustainable food systems.

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