Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Dec 2016
Results of interviews and surveys with residents of a rural central California agricultural community, exploring their perceptions of access to healthy foods.
...Estrada, Kathleen Grassi, Stephanie Nathan Preventing Chronic Disease, 13 12/2016 Food security and nutrition · California...
Date: Apr 2015
Summarizes findings from 29 rural studies of obesity prevention interventions using nutrition-related and environmental strategies. Includes interventions in school, tribal, farmers market, and other settings. Discusses common strategies for adapting and implementing these programs in rural communities.
...Pitts, et al. Preventing Chronic Disease, 12 04/2015 Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control...
Date: Jun 2014
Identifies factors in accessing healthy, affordable food in rural areas of the U.S. and outlines a rural food policy research agenda.
...Sitaker, et al. BMC Public Health, 14, 592 06/2014 Food security and nutrition · Policy · Research methods and resources...
Date: 2014
Examines whether dietary interventions have a greater response among people with a family history of colorectal cancer compared with the general population in rural Virginia. Data was collected by telephone surveys completed at a starting baseline and a one-month follow-up using a 28 question Fat and Fiber Behavior questionnaire. Includes family member and general population sample group data by demographics, education, eating habits, family social support, and other factors.
...Food security and nutrition · Health screening · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Feb 2016
Assesses sugar-sweetened beverage, water, and other beverage consumption with attitudes towards consumption in Alaskan Native children and adults living in rural Alaska. Includes statistics for beverage type by frequency of consumption for children and adults.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Tribal communities · Wellness, health...
Date: Jul 2015
Evaluates the effectiveness of a community assessment tool focused on the built environment and used to capture images such as sidewalks, walkable destinations, restaurants, and food stores, in an effort to identify barriers and facilitators to healthy eating and active living. Includes resident perspectives on community features and opportunities for improvement.
...Food security and nutrition · Infrastructure · Physical activity · Technology for health and human services · Wellness, health...
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.
...Disease, 10 07/2013 Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · North Carolina...
Date: Jan 2016
Examines the barriers to pursuing a healthy lifestyle in rural Colorado communities. Provides examples of innovative programs and uses rural-relevant statistics and illustrations to highlight three main areas of interest: poverty, limited healthy options, and limited access to care. Includes county-level health and population-related statistics for all 64 counties in Colorado.
...data · Food security and nutrition · Population health · Poverty · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Colorado...
Date: Nov 2015
Results of a study showing the correlation between school policies allowing sports drinks and student body mass index. Features statistics such as percentages of schools offering sugar-sweetened beverages or salty snacks, number of overweight and obese students, and percentages of schools in city, suburb, or rural locations.
...Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Minnesota...
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...