Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Feb 2019
Study examining a school-based intervention to increase breakfast consumption in 16 rural Minnesota schools. Draws data from 9th and 10th grade students who were assigned to the intervention group or to control conditions. Discusses intervention programming, including increased access to breakfast services and marketing efforts.
...Food security and nutrition · Schools · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Minnesota...
Date: Feb 2019
Measures the ratio of fast food outlets to grocers in 784 locations across 15 states, and estimates the association of food swamp severity and hospitalization rates. Includes statistics with breakdowns by mostly urban, mostly rural, and completely rural locations.
...02/2019 Access · Diabetes · Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Jan 2019
Highlights the efforts of a community project in Kentucky to increase access to healthy foods and opportunities to be physically active. Details the project's work with grocery store managers to increase the availability of healthy food and with community members to develop and improve physical activity resources.
...engagement and volunteerism · Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Public health · Statistics and data · Kentucky...
Date: Jan 2019
Presents a study on the effect food preferences have on rates of participation in community agriculture programs for low-income families in rural areas. Bases results on interviews with families regarding fruit and vegetable preferences.
...01/2019 Environmental health · Families · Food security and nutrition · Poverty · New York · North Carolina · Vermont · Washington...
Date: 2019
Study examining associations between demographic and environmental factors, such as food availability and access to fitness facilities, and prevalence of obesity and poor cardiovascular health (CVH) in the predominantly rural state of Maine. Includes relationships between individual characteristics, like age and income, and risk factors for poor CVH, including smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, poor diet, and diabetes.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Rural-urban differences...
Date: 2019
Describes how three predominantly Black North Carolina communities in rural Appalachia addressed their health disparities and improved quality of life with the establishment of a community garden and the promotion of active living.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Physical activity · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · North...
Date: Sep 2019
Identifies the food safety education needs of adult day care centers. Examines food safety knowledge gaps, preferences for receiving food safety education, and methods for communicating about food safety education resources. Includes information on rural, town, and urban adult day care centers.
...Food security and nutrition · Older adults · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Wellness...
Date: Nov 2018
Evaluates data from a sample of Appalachian adolescents in Ohio to compare obesity and related behaviors to that of the national adolescent population. Includes comparisons for body mass index (BMI), mean body fat percentage, daily physical activity behaviors, and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Rural-urban differences...
Date: Jul 2014
Discusses the use of the Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE) by a frontier-based community health center in New Mexico for evaluating and addressing social determinants of health.
...Food security and nutrition · Frontier and remote areas · Housing and homelessness · Policy · Poverty · Social determinants...
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...