Resources Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: May 2024
Examines food insecurity (FI) in rural areas and the barriers and facilitators to identifying FI during primary care visits. Provides interview feedback from rural New England primary care practitioners, focused on factors that impact screening for FI and potential interventions to address patient FI. Discusses difficulty of addressing FI in rural geographies, stigma in rural communities, and food resource options from local farms.
...Care, 25, 163 Date 05/2024 Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Health screening · Primary care · Stigma...
Date: Apr 2019
Explores the role Title VI coordinators play in supporting the health and wellness of American Indian and Alaska Native elders. Features perspectives from several Title VI coordinators serving tribal communities across the country on the health disparities faced by Native elders.
...Diabetes · Elderly population · Food security and nutrition · Tribal communities · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: 2024
Report highlights data collected from a survey of American Indian and Alaska Native elders regarding their health and wellness. Explores reported rates of healthcare access, substance use, social support, housing, healthcare screening, and more.
...Food security and nutrition · Health conditions · Health screening · Housing and homelessness · Population health · Social connectedness...
Date: May 2022
Policy brief exploring the intersectionality between food insecurity and socioeconomic status as well as COVID-19 impacts in Southwest Virginia (SWVA), a primarily-rural area with the highest food insecurity and lowest socioeconomic status in Virginia. Highlights the seriousness and complexity of food insecurity in SWVA and the need for future research. Features statistics comparing food insecurity rates and median household income in Grayson County and Loudoun County, and the relationship between labor force and unemployment rate between 2016-2022.
...Access · Employment and unemployment · Food security and nutrition · Infectious diseases · Poverty · Statistics and data · Virginia...
Date: Mar 2018
Examines the use of a dietary screening tool (DST) utilizing surveys, anthropometry, and dietary recalls to assess nutritional risk in rural older adults living in Appalachia. Includes statistics on patient characteristics and medical history by risk category.
...Tagged as Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: 2015
Provides a rural focus for the Healthy People 2020 priorities. Includes overviews of the top 10 rural health priority areas identified by rural stakeholders. (Volume 2 discusses priorities 11-20.) Topics addressed include: health insurance, primary care, emergency services, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, mental health, substance abuse, heart disease and stroke, physical activity, older adults, maternal and child health, and tobacco use. Each overview includes reviews of the relevant literature and models that rural communities can use to address the issues. Document is available for free download, after providing brief information about intended use.
...Food security and nutrition · Maternal health and prenatal care · Mental health · Obesity and weight control...
Date: Aug 2015
Assesses consumer food environment in 17 rural and 3 urban Montana grocery stores using Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for Stores (NEMS-S) to determine availability of quality, fresh food in rural areas.
...Smith, et al. Citation Preventing Chronic Disease, 12 Date 08/2015 Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Montana...
Reviewed: Feb 2025
Describes the Shape Up North Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program, an initiative of the Munson Medical Center in rural Traverse City, Michigan, in cooperation with local farmers markets.
...Hospital Association Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Michigan...
Date: 2019
Describes current literature on rural challenges and opportunities, including cardiovascular risk due to obesity, lack of access to healthcare, workforce shortages, importance of paramedics and community health workers, telehealth and broadband, and impact of the substance use disorder epidemic. Intended to help stakeholders understand the causes of health disparities and to support action to improve the health of rural communities.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Health workforce supply and demand · Illicit drug use · Obesity...
Date: May 2024
A recorded webinar that discusses participant feedback from 3 non-congregate summer meal programs that used various meal distribution models: grab-and-go, mobile meals, and delivery. Provides findings and recommendations from participant feedback and program site visits. Transcript available below description.
...available below description. Date 05/2024 Organization No Kid Hungry Tagged as Food security and nutrition...