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321. Healthy Options: A Community-Based Program to Address Food Insecurity - Resources
Date: Apr 2015

Presents the results of a study to better understand the experience of food insecurity in rural Adams County, Pennsylvania and to examine the impact of a community-based program developed to increase access to and consumption of local, healthy foods.

...Gettysburg College, Center for Public Service Research Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Pennsylvania...

322. Summer Meals: Improvements Needed to Address Participation Estimates and Program Challenges - Resources
Date: Jul 2018

Testimony before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, U.S. House of Representatives, summarizing the May 2018 Government Accountability Office report on summer meals. Addresses 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.

...Kathryn A. Larin 07/2018 Government Accountability Office Access · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Poverty...

323. Differences in Response to a Dietary Intervention Between the General Population and First Degree Relatives of Colorectal Cancer Patients - Resources
Date: 2014

Examines whether dietary interventions have a greater response among people with a family history of colorectal cancer compared with the general population in rural Virginia. Data was collected by telephone surveys completed at a starting baseline and a one-month follow-up using a 28 question Fat and Fiber Behavior questionnaire. Includes family member and general population sample group data by demographics, education, eating habits, family social support, and other factors.

...Food security and nutrition · Health screening · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...

324. Home Food and Activity Assessment: Development and Validation of an Instrument for Diverse Families of Young Children - Resources
Date: Sep 2014

Outlines and tests an assessment tool that measures the home food and activity environments of geographically and economically varied families of preschool aged children in rural Colorado.

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

325. Summer Meals: Actions Needed to Improve Participation Estimates and Address Program Challenges - Resources
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...

326. The Rural Restaurant Healthy Options Program: Response of Rural, Local Newspapers to a Program Press Release - Resources
Date: Mar 2014

Analyzes 22 stories from rural, local newspapers prompted by a press release regarding their local restaurant participating in the Rural Restaurant Healthy Options Program, a health promotion program, to determine the overall response rate, quality of coverage, and promotion provided by local media. The program was implemented in 28 restaurants and all restaurants were owner-operated, family style, sit-down restaurants in counties designated as rural.

...Practice, 15(2), 217-222 03/2014 Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...

327. Characterizing Social Insecurity in a Rural North Carolina Emergency Department - Resources
Date: May 2023

Results of a study exploring, characterizing, and quantifying the social insecurity profile of emergency department patients at a rural teaching hospital in southeastern North Carolina with a large Native American population. Uses data from a survey questionnaire administered in May and June 2018, focusing on food insecurity, transportation insecurity, and exposure to violence.

...Food security and nutrition · Housing and homelessness · Social determinants of health · Transportation · Tribal communities · North...

328. Farmers' Market Challenges in a Rural Setting: A Case Study of the Elaney Wood Heritage Farmers Market - Resources
Date: Dec 2016

Highlights challenges experienced by a farmers market in Snow Hill, North Carolina. Describes efforts to build both a customer base and a vendor base.

...base and a vendor base. 12/2016 Rural Advancement Foundation International Access · Food security and nutrition · North Carolina...

329. Sociocultural Construction of Food Ways in Low-Income Mexican-American Women with Diabetes: A Qualitative Study - Resources
Date: Aug 2016

Explores successful type 2 diabetes management practices of low-income Hispanic women residing in a rural community on the Texas-Mexico border in a sociocultural context, specifically looking at foodways. Foodways are the cultural, social, and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food.

...08/2016 Chronic disease management · Culture · Diabetes · Food security and nutrition · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Women...

330. Win With Wellness - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: Oct 7, 2025

A multi-component approach of weight-loss support groups and health presentations to help adults in northwest Illinois lose weight and improve their health.

...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...