Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Nov 2019
Report focuses on the shortcomings of the federal nutrition guidelines in meeting the nutritional needs of older adults. Bases recommendations on interviews with older adults in both rural and urban areas.
...services · Food security and nutrition · Older adults · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Jan 2022
Discusses the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Provides an overview of federal actions on healthcare and economic policy areas through early January 2022, including data on COVID-19 relief spending and vaccinations. Offers 5 new recommendations to federal agencies regarding emergency rental assistance, nutrition assistance, and tax relief for businesses. Also designates the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) leadership and coordination of a range of public health emergencies as high risk to ensure sustained executive branch and congressional attention so the nation is prepared for future emergencies.
...response · Food security and nutrition · Funding · Income support and assistance · Policy · Statistics and data · Vaccination...
Date: Dec 2015
Results of a study using interviews conducted at 15 food stores in 8 rural eastern Oregon communities, to determine owners' perspectives on customer demand for healthy snacks and beverages, space constraints, vendor influence, and perishability. Includes statistics on percentages of stores stocking single-portion and multiportion units of specific foods and beverages.
...Hayley A. Pickus Preventing Chronic Disease, 12 12/2015 Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Oregon...
Date: Feb 2018
Reports findings from a study of rural independent grocery stores. Compares the number of independent grocery stores and chain grocery stores, including data on stores serving remote rural areas and areas with large Hispanic and African American populations.
...Amber Waves 02/2018 USDA Economic Research Service Access · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data...
Date: Apr 2024
Analyzes associations between SARS-CoV-2 infection and vitamin D status among 3187 Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) patients, with comparisons by race and other demographic factors. Discusses COVID-19 disparities among underserved populations. Includes data on SARS-CoV-2 infection and vitamin D deficiency among rural people.
...Qualified Health Centers · Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Apr 2024
Evaluates the cost-efficacy of healthy food delivery and fruit and vegetable vouchers aimed at reducing hypertension in the Chickasaw Nation. Includes data on blood pressure and quality of life. Discusses the importance of food environment to cardiovascular disease reduction in rural and tribal areas.
...Health, 82, 59 04/2024 Cardiovascular disease · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Tribal communities · Oklahoma...
Date: Oct 2021
Discusses the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Provides an overview of federal actions on healthcare and economic policy areas through September 2021, including data on COVID-19 relief spending, testing, worker health and safety, and child nutrition programs. Offers 16 new recommendations to federal agencies regarding the proper use of relief funding, occupational health and safety, and fraud risks to unemployment insurance programs that would improve the federal response and preparation for future public health emergencies.
...Food security and nutrition · Funding · Income support and assistance · Occupational health and safety · Policy · Statistics...
Date: Jan 2022
Examines 5 school districts in socially vulnerable communities and describes problems faced by students after disasters, including housing instability, food insecurity, and lack of access to mental health services, especially in rural communities. Includes a state- and territory-level map showing school districts that received federal recovery grants for 2017-2019 presidentially-declared disasters.
...response · Food security and nutrition · Funding · Housing and homelessness · Mental health · Schools · Statistics and data...
Date: May 2018
Examines what is known about Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) participation, other summer programs that feed low-income children, challenges in providing rural children with summer meals, and the extent to which the USDA provides assistance. Includes maps of area eligibility and meal sites in selected states.
...selected states. 05/2018 Government Accountability Office Access · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Poverty...
Date: Feb 2023
Examines the impact of the Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives (HFMI) Project which aimed to increase the purchase and consumption of milk in households enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Analyzes 4 pilot stores in Texas participating in the program, including Littlefield which is situated in a nonmetro area. Includes demographic characteristics of counties with pilot stores as well as data on milk sales, redemption of incentives, and more.
...Food and Nutrition Administration Benefit enrollment and application · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Texas...