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Resources Search Results for: Food Security

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251. Barriers to Access to Local Produce in an Early Childhood Setting in Rural Appalachia
Date: Oct 2024

Analyzes access to fresh produce in early childhood programs in Appalachia as well as farm to school programming. Utilizes semi-structured interview feedback with program directors to examine issues such as staffing, increased work loads, regulations, and lack of funding, knowledge, parental involvement, and equipment.

...10/2024 Tagged as Appalachia · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Schools · Sustainability of programs...

252. Development and Evaluation of the Delivery-Based HEALED Produce Rx Program for Uninsured Patients With Diabetes in Rural Eastern North Carolina
Date: Jun 2023

A program evaluation brief that provides an overview of the Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyle to Enhance Diabetes management (HEALED) program that surveyed patients in 2019 and then delivered plant-based foods to 40 participants as a part of a produce prescription (PRx) program in 2021. Reports on how PRx programs and related resources such as cooking instructions can positively impact diabetes patients. Discusses the importance of performing a needs assessment, pilot programming, and a formative evaluation in rural and underserved programs to remove food access barriers such as lack of transportation and involve participants in their own wellness journeys.

...Food security and nutrition · Health insurance · Needs assessment methods and resources · Transportation · Wellness, health promotion...

253. Seeds of Native Health Final Report: 2020
Date: Jan 2020

Provides an overview of Seeds of Native Health activities, such as policy efforts, grant-making projects, grassroots organizations, investments, research, and more.

...Seeds of Native Health Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Networking and collaboration · Policy · Tribal communities...

254. Promoting a Nutritious Diet Inside and Outside the Hospital
Date: Sep 2017

Highlights a rural Vermont hospital's efforts to promote healthier eating habits both inside and outside the hospital by locally sourcing food, encouraging participation in their "Ton of Tomatoes" project, and processing produce to help food-insecure community members. Discusses efforts of other hospitals promoting healthy diets, including removing unhealthy cafeteria meal options and promoting community gardens.

...Community engagement and volunteerism · Food security and nutrition · Hospitals · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...

255. Super Stores' Impact on the Availability of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Approved Stores
Date: Jun 2021

Examines the effect of new super stores on the survival of existing traditional stores and the cost savings accruing to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries. Features statistics including SNAP redemptions and share of redemptions by store type from 1992–2017, and impact of super store entry on the number of SNAP-approved stores with breakdowns by urban and rural areas.

...Research Service Tagged as Access · Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...

256. Low-Income and Low-Supermarket-Access Census Tracts, 2010-2015
Date: Jan 2017

A brief that discusses regions of the country with low-income and limited access to supermarkets and how they demonstrate the connection between poverty and access to healthy food. Includes a comparison of urban and rural locations as connected to low-income and low-access tracts.

...Research Service Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...

257. Characterization of Non-Nutritive Sweetener Intake in Rural Southwest Virginian Adults Living in a Health-Disparate Region
Date: Jul 2017

Identifies non-nutritive sweetener (NNS) intake among adults living in rural southwest Virginia. Examines if differences exist between NNS consumers and NNS non-consumers by demographics, weight and body mass index (BMI), cardio-metabolic measures, dietary intake and quality.

...Nutrients, 9(7), 757 Date 07/2017 Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Virginia...

258. Tanner Health System: Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Date: Jan 2020

Describes "Get Healthy, Eat Well," an initiative by Tanner Health System to promote healthy behaviors in its rural Georgia and Alabama communities. Provides an overview of the framework that guided the network of community partners, school and community interventions, and results of the program. Includes lessons learned and next steps.

...Food security and nutrition · Networking and collaboration · Obesity and weight control · Schools · Social determinants of health...

259. Feeding the Residents of Hardeman County Tennessee
Date: Feb 2023

Profiles Healthy Hardeman Outreach for Healthy Weight (H2O), a partnership between the Healthcare Bolivar General Hospital (BGH), the Hardeman County Health Department, and Hardeman County Community Health Center to improve access to healthy foods and reduce obesity in the Tennessee county.

...Food security and nutrition · Networking and collaboration · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Wellness, health...

260. Vitamin D Levels and SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Medically Underserved Populations in the Minority and Rural Coronavirus Insights Study
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...