Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Dec 2015
Results of a study using interviews conducted at 15 food stores in 8 rural eastern Oregon communities, to determine owners' perspectives on customer demand for healthy snacks and beverages, space constraints, vendor influence, and perishability. Includes statistics on percentages of stores stocking single-portion and multiportion units of specific foods and beverages.
...Hayley A. Pickus Preventing Chronic Disease, 12 12/2015 Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Oregon...
Date: Sep 2026
Examines strategies to connect Medicaid recipients to Food is Medicine (FIM) interventions through primary care providers. Discusses how strategies, such as investing in care coordination and partnering with community-based organizations, may be valuable in rural communities.
...Food security and nutrition · Medicaid · Networking and collaboration · Primary care · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Jan 2022
Explores a study evaluating the perception of Alaska Native elders from the Yukon-Kuskokwim area of Alaska on the efficacy and cultural competence of government assistance programs. Discusses and evaluates a number of programs, such as Head Start, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program of Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), among others.
...Food security and nutrition · Income support and assistance · Older adults · Policy · Poverty · Social determinants of health...
Date: Sep 2026
Examines the food environment and resident demographic characteristics and health status in rural Sullivan County, New York. Utilizes survey data from 1,311 residents as well as a catalog of local restaurants and retail food stores to identify food environment associations with diabetes and obesity. Compares how various geographic measures of the food environment perform in a rural setting and discusses the need to validate measures before use in rural health research.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Research methods and resources · Statistics and data...
Date: Sep 2026
Examines the relationship among food insecurity (FI), geography, and health outcomes in pregnant women living in the Southeastern United States. Utilizes 2018-2022 All of Us Research Program data from 12,192 participants and analyzes cardiometabolic biomarkers, nutritional biomarkers, and environmental factors across rural versus urban, as well as FI versus non-FI populations.
...Food security and nutrition · Health conditions · Maternal health and prenatal care · Rural-urban differences · Social...
Date: Jul 2023
Presents the strategy of St. Mary's Food Bank in Northern Arizona to serve summer and afterschool meals in a rural area covering a large geographic portion of the state. Discusses distribution methods, procurement and menu planning, transportation, staff training, and day-to-day operations.
...training, and day-to-day operations. 07/2023 No Kid Hungry Food security and nutrition · Arizona...
Date: 2026
Provides county-level, interactive data on poverty, income, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use, housing cost burden, insurance status, and household composition in Michigan. Includes regional and state comparisons.
...county data · Food security and nutrition · Housing and homelessness · Income · Poverty · Uninsured and underinsured · Michigan...
Date: Jan 2020
Results of a study using surveys, interviews, and garden visits to households in rural, western Pennsylvania to explore behavior and motivations of rural food gardeners and the challenges they face. Discusses the financial, spiritual, and ecological value of gardening, and opportunities for community support.
...faith-based initiatives · Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Pennsylvania...
Date: 2020
Details the formation of a childhood obesogenic environment index (COEI), which was used to identify rural, urban, and other geographic differences in environmental factors associated with obesity. Variables used to calculate COEI scores include availability of fast-food restaurants, farmers markets, grocery stores, and other related facilities; access to exercise opportunities; violent crime; walkability; and more. Includes county-level data on COEI scores across the U.S.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Nov 2017
Presents a report on a food sovereignty program as a solution to limited food access of the Santee Sioux Nation in Nebraska. Discusses the barriers to healthy food access on the reservation and proposed solutions to increasing access.
...Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Tribal communities · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...