Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: 2019
Episodes of the radio program "Inside Appalachia," exploring challenges faced by elderly people in Appalachia, and the resources available to them. Topics include caregiver shortages, Alzheimer's disease, dying with dignity, and isolation and loneliness.
...Food security and nutrition · Home and community-based services · Hospice and palliative care · Informal caregivers...
Date: Mar 2018
Examines the use of a dietary screening tool (DST) utilizing surveys, anthropometry, and dietary recalls to assess nutritional risk in rural older adults living in Appalachia. Includes statistics on patient characteristics and medical history by risk category.
...03/2018 Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Dec 2017
Reports the results of a study examining the attitudes, social norms, perceived behaviors, and intentions of central Appalachia residents in Kentucky regarding their motivation and participation in a nutrition education and cooking skills program to improve dietary habits and overall health.
...12/2017 Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · Population health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Kentucky...
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: Sep 2015
Examines nutritional quality of foods and beverages available in 8 rural Virginia middle schools. Includes statistics with breakdowns by number of foods and beverages offered, number that were compliant with USDA National School Lunch Program standards, percentage of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunches, and percentages of components such as sugar, fat, and sodium in available foods.
...Preventing Chronic Disease, 12 09/2015 Appalachia · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Schools · Virginia...
Date: Jun 2021
Discusses efforts to improve nutrition of rural Appalachian citizens through community-developed marketing strategies. Examines statistical differences in food purchases at 5 Kentucky gas stations before and after healthier options were noted on station shelves via a "Smart Snack" logo.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Kentucky...
Date: Nov 2021
Results of a study conducted in rural Laurel County, Kentucky, regarding changes to the food environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Offers suggestions for future programming to address inequitable access and response during public health emergencies.
...Access · Appalachia · Emergency preparedness and response · Food security and nutrition · Infectious diseases · Public health · Kentucky...
Date: Mar 2022
Results of telephone surveys of people in Martin County, Kentucky, a highly obese community in which healthy food accessibility is scarce and which experienced the closure of a local grocery store in January 2020. Includes demographics for the participants, and compares their food shopping habits at the time of the initial contact with those at the time of a follow-up survey a year later.
...Health, 19(6), 3506 03/2022 Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Kentucky...
Date: Aug 2021
Results of a study of 854 7th-grade students in rural Appalachian Virginia, exploring relationships between health literacy and energy-balance-related health behaviors, body mass index (BMI), and quality of life. Features demographics and statistics on health-promoting and risky health behaviors, and self-rated health status.
...Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Health literacy · Physical activity · Statistics and data · Virginia...
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...