#SaludTues Tweetchat 11/17: How a Healthy Food Retail Environment Advances Health Equity

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Food insecurity and health disparities disproportionately affect lower income communities and communities of color. These disparities are only exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Access to healthy food should be a universal right.

It’s clear that we must reevaluate how food retail currently works in our country. We must rebuild a more equitable and just system. We can work together to promote food equity in our communities and across the country.

This tweetchat coincides with the new release of a National Research Agenda on healthy food retail, published as a Special Journal Issue.

Join #SaludTues at 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 17, 2020, to tweet about the importance of healthy food retail environments for advancing health equity.

We’ll open the floor to data, resources and your experiences as we explore:

  • What are the most urgent priorities for healthy food retail.
  • How can we support access to healthy food for groups disproportionately affected by health inequities.
  • And how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the gap and highlighted the need for us to act now.

Be sure to use the hashtag #SaludTues to follow the conversation on Twitter and share your strategies, stories, and resources that improve access to healthy food retail.

Click here to learn about the Salud America! #SaludTues tweetchats, see upcoming and past tweetchats, and see how you can get involved.

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for every Latino neighborhood, compared to 3 for every non-Latino neighborhood

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