Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: 2014
Overview of StrongWomen Change Clubs (SWCC), an organization developed through an academic-community research partnership to initiate changes to improve nutrition and physical activity environments for women in rural communities in seven states across the country.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Aug 2014
Examines the perceptions from school staff regarding student reaction to changes in the school lunch menus, implemented in 2012 according to revised standards required by the USDA's National School Lunch Program. Includes rural versus urban location and socioeconomic data of students.
...Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Schools · Statistics and data...
Date: Jun 2025
Discusses the impact of the North Carolina Local Food Council (NCLFC) Community Health Working Group and their efforts to strengthen statewide and local food systems. Focuses on the North Carolina Medicaid 1115 Waiver Healthy Opportunities Pilots (HOPs) case study that aimed to integrate local food into health systems and healthcare initiatives. Includes information about partnerships, collaborations, pilot structure, and network leads in specific North Carolina regions.
...Food security and nutrition · Medicaid · Networking and collaboration · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · North...
Date: Dec 2021
Reports on the economic impacts of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in rural areas from 2009-2014 based on data from the USDA and U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis. Discusses job creation, household spending, and food-sector investments.
...Economics and the economy · Food security and nutrition · Policy · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Jul 2018
Reports on a study examining a school-based intervention, Kids SIPsmartER, aimed at decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among middle school students in rural Appalachian Virginia. Includes student demographic data, such as weight, physical activity, sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, and other health factors.
...Appalachia · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Virginia...
Date: Jul 2025
Examines the resiliency of rural food systems during the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizes interview data from 38 community members representing services in education, food, healthcare, family services, and the Cooperative Extension System who have connections to the food system. Explores how rural communities navigated partnerships, supports, pandemic challenges, and organizational issues to promote food sustainability.
...07/2025 Tagged as COVID-19 · Food security and nutrition · Networking and collaboration · Sustainability of programs...
Reviewed: Aug 2025
Provides the agenda, speaker presentation slides, and poster presentations from completed National Rural Grocery Summits. Focuses on issues such as rural grocery best practices, local food access, community partnerships, funding and sustainability, and more.
...sustainability, and more. Organization Rural Grocery Initiative Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Networking and collaboration...
Date: Nov 2, 2016
Women in Chuuk, Micronesia, often serve as caregivers for their families and communities. But without a formal education, many women can't move beyond their immediate environments. The Chuuk Women's Council provides education and training for Micronesian women, empowering them to become leaders in health. - The Rural Monitor
...food security, and services provided by the government to the communities," stated Stinnett. The council...
Date: May 2019
Examines access to food stores by state, metropolitan, and micropolitan area as a proxy for healthy food access. Estimates rural areas' distance to the nearest and third-nearest food store with breakdowns by race/ethnicity, income, age, vehicle access, and participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
...Food security and nutrition · Income · Income support and assistance · Rural-urban differences · State-by-state...
Date: Oct 2023
Provides results of the Michigan State Health Assessment that informs the State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP), with 4 main focus areas: engaging health policy and systemic change, supporting families to prevent childhood trauma, improving access to food and promoting physical activity, and increasing accountability of environmental polices and regulations. Includes considerations for disadvantaged populations, including rural areas of Michigan.
...Food security and nutrition · Health conditions · Health disparities · Physical activity · Policy · Population health · Social determinants...
