Website Search Results for: Food Security
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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...
Deadline: Mar 10, 2026
Grants to assist grocery stores and small food retailers in making physical improvements and purchasing equipment in order to increase access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for underserved communities in low and moderate income areas of Minnesota.
...Community and economic development · Culture · Food security and nutrition · Older adults · People with disabilities · Poverty · Minnesota...
Deadline: Mar 13, 2026
Grant to support built environment projects to advance health and resilience in low resource, economically distressed, and at-risk communities in Tennessee.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Infrastructure · Needs assessment methods and resources · Physical activity · Planning...
Date: Apr 2022
Describes a culturally tailored community-wide program to augment fruit and vegetable consumption and promote physical activity among 5,686 low-income Latinos of Mexican descent living in Texas. Features demographics and statistics on changes in fruit and vegetable consumption over the course of the intervention.
...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Public health · Statistics and data · U.S.-Mexico Border Region...
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...
Date: Nov 2012
Examines the prevalence of obesity and the environmental factors associated with promoting weight gain and not being conducive to weight loss at a U.S.–Mexico border university serving rural populations.
...11/2012 Environmental health · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · U.S.-Mexico Border Region...
Date: Jun 2018
Reports on 3 focus group interviews with 27 Mexican-American residents of Starr County, a rural Texas border community. Discusses diabetes prevalence, the cultural significance of food and exercise, barriers to healthier lifestyles, lack of affordable healthy foods, and technology use. Describes focus group recommendations for diabetes self-management (DSME) interventions.
...Food security and nutrition · Immigrants · Physical activity · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Jun 2015
Reports on a study comparing preventive healthy behaviors of Hispanic populations in the U.S. nationwide and those living in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Healthy behaviors included physical activity, diets of fruits and vegetables, avoiding heavy alcohol use, and being a non-smoker.
...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Statistics and data · Tobacco use · U.S.-Mexico Border Region...
Date: Nov 2025
Webinar discussing how access to healthy food and nutrition education support diabetes prevention in Texas, featuring perspectives and program examples presented by members of Texas healthcare and food access organizations. Includes discussion of food access in rural and border communities and nutrition support and education opportunities related to the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). See video description for transcript.
...Texas Health Institute Diabetes · Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Texas...
Date: Jun 2014
Study examining access to foods in rural and urban Texas. Uses the CDC's Modified Retail Food Environment (mRFEI) and compares border and non-border county food environments. Discusses availability of healthy foods in rural areas.
...Health, 11(6), 5640-5650 06/2014 Food security and nutrition · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas...