Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Jul 2014
Explores the association of age, gender, education, and income level with purchasing healthy foods using a grocery voucher in rural Appalachian Kentucky, an area considered a food desert with higher rates of chronic disease. Includes data on the purchase of a designated voucher food item by age, sex, education, and income.
...disease · Environmental health · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Kentucky...
Date: Jul 2018
Presents work status data for rural and urban Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients. Identifies those exempt from work requirements under current law who may face a new work requirement under proposed legislation, breaking out the current work hours of this group. Briefly discusses the scarcity and expense of child care.
...Child care · Food security and nutrition · Legislation and regulations · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Jan 2013
Describes predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors that affect eating a Mediterranean diet in a rural Appalachian food desert in Kentucky. Includes study participant characteristics, such as age, education, and household income.
...Food security and nutrition · Population health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: 2014
Examines the socio-demographic characteristics of farmers market participants, the barriers and facilitators to farmers market shopping in southern rural communities, and the associations between farmers market use with fruit and vegetable consumption and body mass index (BMI). Seeks to assess the potential for using farmers markets to increase access to and the consumption of fruits and vegetables in rural areas.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · The South · Wellness, health...
Date: Apr 2022
Describes a culturally tailored community-wide program to augment fruit and vegetable consumption and promote physical activity among 5,686 low-income Latinos of Mexican descent living in Texas. Features demographics and statistics on changes in fruit and vegetable consumption over the course of the intervention.
...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Public health · Statistics and data · U.S.-Mexico Border Region...
Date: Oct 2018
Provides a case study of a rural program that provides free lunches to school-age children in the summer. Focuses on how the program works and reports on the experiences of those working with the program. Includes data on food insecurity for children in the U.S. and New Hampshire and an overview of USDA school food programs.
...Public Policy Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Policy · Statistics and data · New Hampshire...
Date: Apr 28, 2026
Summary information for the event 2026 Pennsylvania Rural Community and Public Health Conference, sponsored by Northeast Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center, Penn State College of Medicine's Public Health Program, Pennsylvania Public Health Association, Pennsylvania Rural Health Association, Society for Public Health Education - Pennsylvania Chapter.
...Community and faith-based initiatives · Farmers and farmworkers · Food security and nutrition · Migrants · Public health · Pennsylvania...
Date: Sep 2024
Describes the Ohio Medicaid program and the federal Medicaid health-related social needs (HRSN) framework. Discusses how Medicaid coverage in Ohio can cover aspects of housing and nutrition needs as of 2023. Includes county-level map depicting percent of income spent on housing in Ohio as well as examples of programs addressing HRSNs in rural areas.
...Food security and nutrition · Housing and homelessness · Legislation and regulations · Medicaid · Social determinants of health...
Date: Feb 2018
Analyzes nut consumption and other dietary behaviors of overweight or obese African-American women residing in rural Alabama and Mississippi. Aims to inform future nutrition education strategies for individuals at high risk of obesity-related chronic conditions by investigating the relationship between eating nuts and consuming other healthy foods.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · The South...
Date: May 2019
Highlights the results of a survey of quality of life, safety, and health for rural adults in the United States. Survey inquires into the experiences of rural adults in the areas of health, access to healthy food, and social, civic, and economic well-being.
...Food security and nutrition · Housing and homelessness · Poverty · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...