Healthy Eating & Physical Activity – Addressing Inequities in Urban Environments

This US-based report summarizes a two-day convening of community advocates and academics to discuss strategies to improve the nutrition and activity environment to increase health equity.

Among the three sections, the report: 1) describes the underlying context for improving opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity in socially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods; 2) Presents a range of strategies to improve access to physical activity options and healthy food and provides further detail for six priority strategies, describing the policies that support each strategy; and 3) Describes the elements and the process required to make sustainable improvements to a neighborhood’s food and physical activity environment.