Website Search Results for: Food Security
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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: May 2017
Examines associations between pesticide exposure and fruit and vegetable consumption in children of farmworkers and non-farmworkers in a rural agricultural setting throughout multiple growing seasons.
...Children and youth · Environmental health · Farmers and farmworkers · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Washington...
Date: Aug 2016
Explores successful type 2 diabetes management practices of low-income Hispanic women residing in a rural community on the Texas-Mexico border in a sociocultural context, specifically looking at foodways. Foodways are the cultural, social, and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food.
...08/2016 Chronic disease management · Culture · Diabetes · Food security and nutrition · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Women...
Date: 2017
Describes efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity in Ashe County, North Carolina through the Food Pantry Project, a food access screening program located within the local hospital.
...North Carolina Medical Journal, 78(4), 259-260 2017 Food security and nutrition · North Carolina...
Date: Dec 2019
Research letter describing a study of the Online Purchase Pilot (OPP), which allows beneficiaries in 8 states to use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to buy groceries online. Includes statistics on the availability of grocery delivery among rural food desert census tracts and SNAP households in the 8 OPP states.
...Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Alabama · Iowa · Maryland · Nebraska · New Jersey...
Date: Nov 2021
Video of testimony presented to the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry on Nov. 2, 2021. Discusses nutrition insecurity, nutrition-related health disparities, and diet-related disease, including ways in which this affects those who are low-income, rural, American Indians and Alaska Natives, and other racial or ethnic minorities. Includes links for transcripts.
...Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry Access · Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Policy · Tribal communities...
Date: Mar 2020
Describes the implementation of the High Obesity Program, a program designed to expand access to healthy foods, increase opportunities for physical activity, and reduce obesity and related diseases in high-risk and predominantly rural communities. Efforts were supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Cooperative Extension Service (CES).
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Statistics and data · Wellness, health...
Date: Dec 2016
Analysis of data from the 2012 School Health Policies and Practices Study, showing how school district characteristics affect food and beverage marketing and promotion policies and practices. Features statistics with breakdowns including rural, suburban, or urban status, district size, and percentage of non-Hispanic White students.
...Chronic Disease, 13 12/2016 Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Schools · Statistics and data...
Date: Feb 2021
Analyzes the relationship between food insecurity and geographic food access through the location and urbanicity of 2-1-1 food calls. Examines 55,405 food calls made in 2018 in Texas and the relative location of the ZIP code of the caller in relationship to nearby supermarkets. Provides descriptive statistics on the demographic makeup of caller locations, including amount of calls per county.
...County-by-county data · Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Texas...
Date: Nov 2016
Reports on a study examining how rural Alderson, West Virginia addressed the forthcoming food desert when the only grocery store in town closed. Addresses the impact of a new food hub on the food desert.
...Rural and Remote Health, 16(4), 3901 11/2016 Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · West Virginia...