Vignette 5: Connecting the Dots

Transportation and Safety: In this vignette, Jose describes the challenges that his family, friends, and neighbors have when shopping for food in Washington, DC, including travel far outside home neighborhoods or walking through unsafe areas. Links between violence—and the fear of violence—and healthy eating are disproportionately prominent in communities of color and low-income populations, which contributes to the widening gap in health and safety outcomes. Preventing violence is critical to reducing inequities in health for Latinos and other communities of color and to promoting healthy eating for all Americans.

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