statistics on food environment indicators and provides a spatial
overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its
success in doing so. The atlas was developed by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's Economic Research Service, with support from federal
agencies, academia, and the private sector. The atlas assembles food
environment factors within three broad categories (food choices,
health and well-being, community characteristics) and currently
includes 90 indicators -- most at the county level. Users can create
maps showing the variation in a single indicator across the United
States, view all the county-level indicators for a selected county, or
use the advance query tool to identify counties sharing the same
degree of multiple indicators. The atlas is designed to stimulate
research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality and
inform policymakers as they address diet and public health. The atlas
is available at http://www.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas.
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