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221. 'FARMacy' Program Works to Expand Rural Healthcare - News
Date: Aug 12, 2024

Profiles the FARMacy program in West Virginia which aims to address rural food insecurity and chronic disease through food, healthcare, education, and more. Source: WOWK.

...food insecurity and chronic disease through food, healthcare, education, and more. Tagged as Food security...

222. Utilizing Public Transportation to End Food Insecurity in Rural and Small Urban Areas by Providing Better Access: A Case Study of Rural Counties in North Dakota - Resources
Date: Mar 2024

Analyzes the impact of public transportation in addressing food insecurity in rural and urban areas of North Dakota. Provides county and ZIP-code level sociodemographic data on population changes, food insecurity, poverty, and more. Includes discussion about causes of food insecurity in rural areas.

...food insecurity in rural areas. Author(s) Dilip Mistry, Jill Hough Date 03/2024 Type Document Organization Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute Tagged as County-by-county data · Food security...

223. Daniel Foundation of Alabama Grants - Funding
Deadline: Oct 11, 2024

Grants for programs in Alabama with a focus on underserved communities, rural areas, and populations experiencing economic disadvantages. Priority areas include health; community needs; education and youth; and arts, culture, and community assets.

...Food security and nutrition · Housing and homelessness · Human services · Leadership · Mental health · Physical activity · Poverty...

224. Listening to Local Voices in Community Assessment: Access to Food and Physical Activity in Wisconsin's Black, Hmong, Latinx, and Somali Communities - Resources
Date: Jan 2023

Examines the barriers and facilitators related to accessing healthy food and engaging in physical activity within Hmong, Somali, Latinx, and Black/African American communities in Wisconsin. Includes feedback from community-led focus group discussions involving participants from rural and urban counties. Provides suggestions to create partnerships and improve programming.

...competency · Food security and nutrition · Hispanic or Latino · Immigrants · Networking and collaboration · Physical activity · Wisconsin...

225. Fruit and Vegetable Bucks: Adams County Grocery Store Snap Incentive Program - Resources
Date: 2017

Describes and evaluates the Adams County Grocery Store SNAP Incentive for Produce in Winter/Early Spring – a program in rural Pennsylvania for residents who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to assist them in purchasing fresh fruits and vegetables.

...Food Policy Council, Gettysburg College Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Pennsylvania...

226. Developing an Agenda for Research about Policies to Improve Access to Healthy Foods in Rural Communities: A Concept Mapping Study - Resources
Date: Jun 2014

Identifies factors in accessing healthy, affordable food in rural areas of the U.S. and outlines a rural food policy research agenda.

...food policy research agenda. Author(s) Donna B. Johnson, Emilee Quinn, Marilyn Sitaker, et al. Citation BMC Public Health, 14, 592 Date 06/2014 Type Document Tagged as Food security...

227. Integrating Culture and History to Promote Health and Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities: Traditional Foods Have Become a Way to Talk About Health - Resources
Date: Feb 2020

Reports on the implementation of the Traditional Foods Project (TFP), a community-based intervention to promote access to and integration of traditional foods, physical activities, and social support in culturally and geographically diverse American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities.

...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Social connectedness · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...

228. Adult Health Status among Native American Families Participating in the Growing Resilience Home Garden Study - Resources
Date: Aug 2019

Reports the results of a randomized controlled trial examining the impacts of home food gardens on the health status of 176 adults from 96 families of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes living on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Compares the rates of obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes among study participants with the state and national disease rates in 2017, and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) national disease rates in 2015.

...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...

229. Adults With Diabetes Residing in "Food Swamps" Have Higher Hospitalization Rates - Resources
Date: Feb 2019

Measures the ratio of fast food outlets to grocers in 784 locations across 15 states, and estimates the association of food swamp severity and hospitalization rates. Includes statistics with breakdowns by mostly urban, mostly rural, and completely rural locations.

...Tagged as Access · Diabetes · Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...

230. Veteran Mobility and COVID-19 - Resources
Date: May 2022

Examines veterans living in rural areas and how their mobility options, cost of transportation, use of telehealth, access to healthy food, and social isolation have been impacted by COVID-19. Discusses issues and policies related to improving healthcare transportation and access to Veterans Administration (VA) services for rural veterans. Includes data on veteran demographics and survey responses to health- and transportation-related questions.

...COVID-19 · Food security and nutrition · Infectious diseases · Social connectedness · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Transportation · Veterans...