Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Mar 2018
Analyzes results from a randomized control study at a supermarket in rural Maine to assess whether financial incentives are effective in increasing the number of fruits and vegetables low-income families purchase. Includes participants' weekly spending on fruits and vegetables, with data categorized by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Poverty · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion...
Date: Oct 2017
Analyzes the effects of food shopping habits and food environments in the home, school, and consumer settings on dietary intake among rural adolescents living in Kentucky and North Carolina. Discusses habit and environment as potential influences on rural-urban adolescent obesity disparities.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Kentucky · North...
Date: May 2023
Describes trends in Child Nutrition (CN) Program participation during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, from March through September 2020. Presents data on the number of meals served, operational and financial challenges state agencies and local program operators experienced during the pandemic, and the use of COVID-19 Child Nutrition nationwide waivers. Includes information on challenges rural program operators faced.
...application · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Schools · Statistics and data...
Date: Mar 2024
Offers the Food Retail Environment Healthfulness Quality measure, a calculation measuring a household's exposure to healthy food retail spaces. Uses the measure to show rural and urban comparisons of distance to healthy food options in addition to demographic analysis.
...03/2024 USDA Economic Research Service Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Dec 2015
Examines school meal costs and identifies factors that affect per-meal costs, including the school food authority's location, size, and balance between the number of lunches and breakfasts served. Includes data on school meal costs for rural, suburban, and urban schools.
...Service Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Schools · Statistics and data...
Date: Aug 2018
Highlights a study on an intervention to address barriers to food access in economically impoverished rural communities. Focuses on 24 counties in 6 Midwestern states and details the various assessment tools used to evaluate the needs of the community and the success of the intervention.
...Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Indiana · Michigan...
Reviewed: Apr 2025
Monthly publication of the Economic Research Service. Covers the ERS research and analysis on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America. Coverage includes topics related to the social determinants of health for rural people.
...people. USDA Economic Research Service Food security and nutrition · Population health · Poverty · Statistics and data...
Date: Jul 2018
Reports on a study examining a school-based intervention, Kids SIPsmartER, aimed at decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among middle school students in rural Appalachian Virginia. Includes student demographic data, such as weight, physical activity, sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, and other health factors.
...Appalachia · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Virginia...
Date: Jun 2018
Reports on the effectiveness of the Faith, Activity, and Nutrition physical activity and healthy eating program implemented in 59 rural churches located in a medically underserved South Carolina county. Discusses the acceptance and reach of program, program impact, and the potential for broader distribution.
...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Population health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
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...