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Food Deserts: A Comparative Analysis

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In a Policy Forum article published in PLOS Medicine, Jason Block and S V Subramanian, from Harvard University, United States, stated that the self-motivation to put an end to food deserts in low-income, geographic communities that do not have access to a large grocery store, may not have an effect on enhancing dietary quality or lessen the great difference in the diet quality.

Reducing food deserts has been regarded as more important in federal and state governments, many times through public-private partnerships, as well as international groups, such as the specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health - World Health Organization.

However, in the article by Jason Block (faculty at the Harvard

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