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: May 2024
Policy brief analyzing the association between food deserts and hypertension by census tract in San Joaquin Valley, California. Includes color-coded census tract maps. Mentions high incidence of hypertension and food deserts in rural areas.
...Valley Health Policy Institute Cardiovascular disease · Food security and nutrition · Policy · Statistics and data · California...
Date: Sep 2020
Investigates the relationship between place effects, or food environment, and prevalence of chronic diseases in West Virginia. Features data and statistics on how areas with access to different food vendors (hot spots) and those that lack food providers (cold spots) impact diabetes and obesity rates, with information broken down by rural or urban setting.
...Food security and nutrition · Income · Obesity and weight control · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Sep 2018
Highlights a study on the Tribal Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE) retail intervention that implements healthy food options in convenience stores in tribal communities. Details the results of a participant survey about the perceived food environment in their communities, and describes the implementation strategies, as well as the foods offered by the intervention.
...based initiatives · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Tribal communities...
Date: Nov 2012
Examines the prevalence of obesity and the environmental factors associated with promoting weight gain and not being conducive to weight loss at a U.S.–Mexico border university serving rural populations.
...11/2012 Environmental health · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · U.S.-Mexico Border Region...
Date: Apr 2015
Summarizes findings from 29 rural studies of obesity prevention interventions using nutrition-related and environmental strategies. Includes interventions in school, tribal, farmers market, and other settings. Discusses common strategies for adapting and implementing these programs in rural communities.
...Pitts, et al. Preventing Chronic Disease, 12 04/2015 Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control...
Date: Jun 2012
Explores the prevalence differences between U.S. rural and non-rural adults in consuming at least five servings of fruits and/or vegetables daily. Provides state-by-state consumption percentages for both rural and non-rural adult residents, and discusses the link between rural status, fruit and vegetable consumption, chronic disease, and numerous other variables.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Rural-urban differences · State-by-state data · Statistics and data...
Date: Mar 2025
Examines supplement use in perimenopausal and menopausal women living in rural Hawaii. Utilizes 2023 survey data related to supplement use, with breakdowns according to demographics, type of supplements, and number of supplements used.
...Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Women · Hawaii...
Date: Mar 2024
Evaluates incidence and prevalence of diagnosed diabetes by rurality at the county level, utilizing 2004-2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data. Analyzes the impact of food environment, obesity, physical activity, and other sociodemographic factors on rural-urban differences in diabetes incidence and prevalence. Includes regional comparisons.
...Diabetes · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Dec 2020
Examines barriers and facilitators for accessing healthy food in Martin County, Kentucky. Aims to develop socially-, culturally-, and historically-informed policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) interventions to reduce obesity in Appalachia and other areas.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Wellness, health...