Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Sep 2018
Explores sociodemographic factors contributing to food affordability, with emphasis on differences between rural and urban areas. Features statistics on select food-related characteristics of U.S. counties, with breakdowns by rural or urban location and by Appalachian or Delta counties and other counties.
...Access · Appalachia · Delta Region · Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
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: Sep 2019
Highlights the success and challenges of local public health units implementing the SIPsmartER program, a 6-month evidence- and community-based behavioral intervention shown to effectively decrease adult consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, in rural Appalachian Virginia.
...Food security and nutrition · Public health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Oct 2017
Examines the relationship between 17 rural Appalachian Kentucky grocery stores' social marketing efforts to promote healthy eating and the frequency of fruit and vegetable purchases. Features statistics on survey participants' demographics and influence of recipe cards on purchase of ingredients including fruits and vegetables.
...Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Kentucky...
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: Jun 2024
Analyzes food pantry stigma among college students at a rural Appalachian university. Examines responses from an online survey that provides information on student food insecurity, demographic information, stigma associated with food pantry use, and more.
...Development, 13(3), 152-164 06/2024 Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Stigma · North Carolina...
Date: Oct 2013
Explores a study of a school-based intervention that mentors young children to reverse obesity health risks in rural Appalachia. Compares two curriculum delivery methods, one using teen mentors and the other adult teachers. Assesses the effects of the number of mentoring sessions attended on the intended outcomes.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Schools · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
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: Feb 4, 2026
Announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service of the annual adjustments to reimbursement rates for the Summer Food Service Program. The rates are effective January 1, 2026. Source: Federal Register.
...rates are effective January 1, 2026. Access · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Policy...
Date: 2014
Examines the socio-demographic characteristics of farmers market participants, the barriers and facilitators to farmers market shopping in southern rural communities, and the associations between farmers market use with fruit and vegetable consumption and body mass index (BMI). Seeks to assess the potential for using farmers markets to increase access to and the consumption of fruits and vegetables in rural areas.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · The South · Wellness, health...