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581. Home Food and Activity Assessment: Development and Validation of an Instrument for Diverse Families of Young Children
Date: Sep 2014

Outlines and tests an assessment tool that measures the home food and activity environments of geographically and economically diverse families of preschool aged children in rural Colorado.

...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...

582. Adoption of Sodium Reduction Strategies in Small and Rural Hospitals, Illinois, 2012
Date: Mar 2014

Results of a 4-month-long intervention in which 30 hospitals promoted lower-sodium food choices in their cafeterias and vending machines, and made available information regarding benefits of sodium reduction.

...Document Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Hospitals · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Illinois...

583. Importance of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Rural America
Date: Dec 2019

Article examining the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on rural communities, addressing rural-specific needs, challenges, and considerations related to program implementation. Describes rural health disparities and food access issues in rural areas, and the potential effects of changes to SNAP on rural participants.

...12/2019 Type Document Tagged as Access · Benefit enrollment and application · Food security and nutrition · Policy...

584. Community Benefit Programming to Improve Healthy Food Access and Reduce Risk of Diet-Related Disease: A National Survey of Hospitals
Date: 2017

Details the results of a survey on hospital community benefit programming to increase access to healthy food in an attempt to reduce diet-related health conditions. Discusses the Community Health Needs Assessments for the communities the surveyed hospitals were serving. Also, looks at the various implementation strategies used for each program.

...Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Hospitals · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...

585. Life in Rural America: Part II
Date: May 2019

Highlights the results of a survey of quality of life, safety, and health for rural adults in the United States. Survey inquires into the experiences of rural adults in the areas of health, access to healthy food, and social, civic, and economic well-being.

...food, and social, civic, and economic well-being. Date 05/2019 Type Document Organizations Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, NPR, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tagged as Access · Economics and the economy · Food security...

586. Addressing Food Access In Arkansas: A Report & Recommendations From The 2022 Arkansas Governor's Food Desert Working Group
Date: Dec 2022

Reports on actionable steps at the community and policy level to eliminate food deserts in Arkansas. Provides county-level data on food insecurity and benefits programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), as well as working models to alleviate food insecurity in both urban and rural areas.

...food insecurity in both urban and rural areas. Date 12/2022 Type Document Organization Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Tagged as Benefit enrollment and application · County-by-county data · Food security...

587. Differences in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation among Oklahoma Counties
Date: May 2022

Examines Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation among income-eligible residents in Oklahoma. Includes data on age, race, gender, and rurality of participants, among other factors.

...Food Systems, and Community Development, 11(3), 229-239 Date 05/2022 Type Document Tagged as Benefit enrollment and application · Food security...

588. Food Insecurity in Southwest Virginia
Date: May 2022

Policy brief exploring the intersectionality between food insecurity and socioeconomic status as well as COVID-19 impacts in Southwest Virginia (SWVA), a primarily-rural area with the highest food insecurity and lowest socioeconomic status in Virginia. Highlights the seriousness and complexity of food insecurity in SWVA and the need for future research. Features statistics comparing food insecurity rates and median household income in Grayson County and Loudoun County, and the relationship between labor force and unemployment rate between 2016-2022.

...Access · Employment and unemployment · Food security and nutrition · Infectious diseases · Poverty · Statistics and data · Virginia...

589. USDA Summer Food Program with Administrator for the Food and Nutrition Service, Cindy Long
Date: Jun 2024

Podcast episode featuring Cindy Long, Administrator for the the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Discusses how the USDA FNS helps parents and caregivers raising families in rural and remote areas navigate nutrition assistance programs when school is out of session in the summer. Describes Summer Food Program eligibility and how to access program benefits.

...Food Program eligibility and how to access program benefits. Date 06/2024 Type Audio Organization Impact! Communications, Inc. Tagged as Access · Benefit enrollment and application · Children and youth · Families · Food security...

590. The Impact of Health Literacy on Rural Adults' Satisfaction with a Multi-Component Intervention to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake
Date: Aug 2016

Examines if health literacy influences study participants' perceptions and satisfaction with different components of SIPsmartER, a behavioral health intervention designed to reduce sugary beverage intake in rural, low socioeconomic adults in Virginia. Includes SIPsmartER assessment and health literacy data by annual income, employment status, health insurance, and other characteristics.

...Food security and nutrition · Health literacy · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...