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641. Nutrition Assistance Programs: Agencies Could Do More to Help Address the Nutritional Needs of Older Adults - Resources
Date: Nov 2019

Report focuses on the shortcomings of the federal nutrition guidelines in meeting the nutritional needs of older adults. Bases recommendations on interviews with older adults in both rural and urban areas.

...services · Elderly population · Food security and nutrition · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...

642. Introduction to Multi-Sector Intersections and Collaborations to Advance Health Equity - Resources
Date: 2018

Illustrates how state and local public health departments can partner with non-public health governmental sectors - agriculture, economy, education, environment, housing, justice, and transportation - to promote improving health for all people.

...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Housing and homelessness · Schools · Social determinants of health · Transportation...

643. Commute Times, Food Retail Gaps, and Body Mass Index in North Carolina Counties - Resources
Date: Sep 2010

Examines potential impact that longer commute times and limited access to affordable, healthy food have on the rural obesity disparity. Includes statistical breakdowns by age, weight status, race, education, and income level.

...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · North...

644. Understanding the Rural Food Environment: Perspectives of Low-income Parents - Resources
Date: Apr 2011

Describes barriers rural, low-income families face to access quality, affordable, and healthful food. Concludes that remedies used in urban areas will not help to fix the problem of food deserts in rural areas.

...food deserts in rural areas. Author(s) Anush Yousefian, Al Leighton, Kimberly Fox, David Hartley Citation Rural and Remote Health, 11(2), 1631 Date 04/2011 Type Document Tagged as Families · Food security...

645. Beyond Nutrient Intake: Use of Digital Food Photography Methodology to Examine Family Dinnertime - Resources
Date: May 2019

Examines the feasibility of utilizing food photography (Remote Food Photography Method or RFPM) with rural, low-resource families to examine the context of family mealtime, including meal timing, location, concordance in child-parent meals, level of preparation, and meal quality. Reviews mealtimes of 31 parent-child pairs in rural Colorado. Discusses the methodology's potential utility for both assessment and intervention.

...Tagged as Families · Food security and nutrition · Research methods and resources · Statistics and data · Colorado...

646. Formative Evaluation for a Healthy Corner Store Initiative in Pitt County, North Carolina: Engaging Stakeholders for a Healthy Corner Store Initiative, Part 2 - Resources
Date: Jul 2013

Examines the feasibility of increasing access to healthy foods available in corner stores by engaging corner store owners and customers in a formative evaluation to gather information to be used in the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) initiative. Includes shopping pattern and characteristic data on 179 rural food desert and urban nonfood desert customers in 9 corner stores in North Carolina.

...Document Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · North Carolina...

647. Northeast Region Historically Underserved Farmer and Farming Communities Grant - Funding
Deadline: Jan 7, 2025

Grants to address key issues affecting the sustainability of agriculture throughout the Northeast SARE region.

...Food security and nutrition · Healthcare needs and services · Mental health · Policy · Connecticut · Delaware · Maine · Maryland...

648. Nutrition Standards for Food Service Guidelines for Foods Served or Sold in Municipal Government Buildings or Worksites, United States, 2014 - Resources
Date: Dec 2016

Analyzes data from a national survey of 1,945 government agencies regarding presence of written nutrition standards, food groups or nutrients included, and populations served by the facilities where standards were used. Features statistics with breakdowns by municipal characteristics including population size, rural or urban status, census region, poverty prevalence, educational attainment, and race or ethnicity.

...Disease, 13 Date 12/2016 Type Document Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data...

649. Availability, Price, and Quality of Fruits and Vegetables in 12 Rural Montana Counties, 2014 - Resources
Date: Aug 2015

Assesses consumer food environment in 17 rural and 3 urban Montana grocery stores using Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for Stores (NEMS-S) to determine availability of quality, fresh food in rural areas.

...food in rural areas. Author(s) Carmen Byker Shanks, Selena Ahmed, Teresa Smith, et al. Citation Preventing Chronic Disease, 12 Date 08/2015 Type Document Tagged as Food security...

650. Healthy Options: A Community-Based Program to Address Food Insecurity - Resources
Date: Apr 2015

Presents the results of a study to better understand the experience of food insecurity in rural Adams County, Pennsylvania and to examine the impact of a community-based program developed to increase access to and consumption of local, healthy foods.

...foods. Author(s) Amy B. Dailey, Audrey Hess, Camille Horton, et al. Date 04/2015 Type Document Organizations Adams County Local Foods Network, Gettysburg College, Center for Public Service Research Tagged as Food security...