Website Search Results for: Food Security
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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: 2015
Explores the partnership between cancer researchers and community members who worked together to develop county-specific media campaigns to improve colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates and fruit and vegetable consumption in Appalachian Ohio. Covers the experiences of community members featured in the media campaigns. Includes demographic information for both media campaigns, such as sex, education, personal history of CRC, and first-degree relative with CRC.
...Food security and nutrition · Health screening · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Oct 2014
Reports on a community-based study to measure and compare the current levels of obesity and associated lifestyle behaviors of physical activity and diets of fruits and vegetables among rural and urban residents in south central Virginia and north central North Carolina.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Rural-urban differences...
Date: Feb 2015
Examines 2 rural Midwest U.S. communities, one community serving as the control and the other receiving the Waupaca Eating Smart (WES) intervention designed to improve the food environment and promote healthy eating in restaurants and supermarkets. Includes statistics on nutrition environment scores, customer satisfaction with food choice availability, and food purchase history for both before and after the intervention.
...health · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Sep 2014
Describes a project in which community advisory boards (CABs) were established by residents of the Menominee, Lac du Flambeau, and Bad River rural tribal communities and university partners, for the purpose of eliminating barriers to healthy nutrition and physical activity and fostering improvement in overall community health.
...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Tribal communities · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Wisconsin...
Date: Aug 2014
Highlights a study on regional variability of food insecurity in Wisconsin from 2008-2012. Compares rural and urban areas of the state.
...08/2014 Access · Food security and nutrition · Population health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Wisconsin...
Date: Sep 2014
Outlines and tests an assessment tool that measures the home food and activity environments of geographically and economically varied families of preschool aged children in rural Colorado.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Nov 2014
Study examining how rural Mexican-American youth use the Internet or short message service (SMS) on mobile devices to access health related information to learn about diet and exercise. Evaluates the use of mobile devices for diet and exercise knowledge and its utility in planning interventions to address obesity among the study population.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Technology for health and human...
Date: Jun 2014
Describes a point-of-purchase intervention conducted in 28 owner-operated restaurants in 26 rural counties in the Midwest. Features statistics with characteristics of adopters and non-adopters.
...06/2014 Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Iowa...
Date: Oct 2015
Analyzes the rural-urban differences in the prevalence of adult obesity, and the high risk obesity-related behaviors of physical inactivity and poor diet.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...