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Website Search Results for: Food Security

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431. Rural New York: Challenges and Opportunities - Resources
Date: Sep 2023

Provides comparative data for the 10 rural counties in New York. Discusses issues such as transportation, aging and overall declining population, shrinking labor force, and lack of access to adequate housing, food, healthcare, and broadband.

...Employment and unemployment · Food security and nutrition · Housing and homelessness · Statistics and data · Transportation · New York...

432. Impact of USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Rural and Urban Economies in the Aftermath of the Great Recession - Resources
Date: Oct 2021

Reports on the effects of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit spending on employment, output, and household incomes between 2009-2014. Describes the different impacts of SNAP benefit outlays on urban and rural economies.

...Food security and nutrition · Income support and assistance · Poverty · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...

433. The High Obesity Program: Overview of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Cooperative Extension Services Efforts to Address Obesity - Resources
Date: Mar 2020

Describes the implementation of the High Obesity Program, a program designed to expand access to healthy foods, increase opportunities for physical activity, and reduce obesity and related diseases in high-risk and predominantly rural communities. Efforts were supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Cooperative Extension Service (CES).

...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Statistics and data · Wellness, health...

434. Teacher and Caregiver Perspectives on Water Is K'é: An Early Child Education Program to Promote Healthy Beverages among Navajo Children - Resources
Date: Aug 2023

Presents a study exploring the efficacy of the Water is K'é pilot program which is designed to increase water consumption among young children in the Navajo Nation. Evaluation draws on the perspective of teachers and caregivers who were interviewed about their children's water consumption.

...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Public health · Tribal communities · Wellness, health promotion...

435. Rural Adults' Perceptions of Nutrition Recommendations for Cancer Prevention: Contradictory and Conflicting Messages - Resources
Date: Nov 2023

Explores perceptions of web-based nutrition recommendations for colorectal cancer (CRC) prevention, utilizing interview data from 48 rural men and women aged 50 to 73 who participated in a CRC prevention intervention. Identifies challenges related to contradictory recommendations, cultural and dietary preferences, and information gaps. Includes discussion of factors promoting CRC screening.

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

436. Assessing the Association Between Food Environment and Dietary Inflammation by Community Type: A Cross-Sectional REGARDS Study - Resources
Date: Sep 2023

Analyzes the correlation between community type and food environments. Examines 2003-2007 data from 20,322 individuals according to higher density urban, lower density urban, suburban/small town, and rural. Discusses the association between community type and their respective dietary inflammation score (DIS) as well as potential interventions for these locations.

...Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...

437. Lack of In-Home Piped Water and Reported Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among Adults in Rural Alaska - Resources
Date: Apr 2020

Examines associations between availability of in-home piped water service and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in rural Alaska using data from 2013 and 2015. Assesses health outcomes such as obesity and self-reported poor health as related to SSBs. Includes statistics broken down by age, sex, household income, and education level, among other things.

...04/2020 Food security and nutrition · Infrastructure · Obesity and weight control · Population health · Tribal communities · Alaska...

438. Introducing K-DATA: Kentucky - Demographics, Analytics, Trends and Access (K-DATA) - Resources
Date: 2024

Reports on health and population in Kentucky. Includes coverage of state demographics, social determinants of health, healthcare workforce supply and distribution, Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), access to care, facilities, public health programs, nutrition, youth, people with disabilities, substance use disorder, cancer, diabetes, and characteristics of Kentucky's rural, urban, Delta, and Appalachian regions.

...Food security and nutrition · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare facilities...

439. Hunger and Obesity: Understanding a Food Insecurity Paradigm: Workshop Summary - Resources
Date: 2011

Presents the results from a workshop, held November 16-18, 2010, which explored the relationship between food insecurity and obesity. Chapter 4 includes a section on rural populations.

...Engineering, and Medicine Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Tribal communities...

440. Daily Access to Local Foods for School Meals: Key Drivers - Resources
Date: Mar 2017

Report on the progress of farm-to-school programs as a way to improve access to local foods for daily meals. Includes examples of successful programs, a discussion of the influence of school location, size, farmers markets, and state policies as impacts on that success, and variation by regional districts.

...Michael Smith 03/2017 USDA Economic Research Service Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Schools...