Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Jun 2021
Discusses efforts to improve nutrition of rural Appalachian citizens through community-developed marketing strategies. Examines statistical differences in food purchases at 5 Kentucky gas stations before and after healthier options were noted on station shelves via a "Smart Snack" logo.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Kentucky...
Date: Nov 2021
Results of a study conducted in rural Laurel County, Kentucky, regarding changes to the food environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Offers suggestions for future programming to address inequitable access and response during public health emergencies.
...Access · Appalachia · Emergency preparedness and response · Food security and nutrition · Infectious diseases · Public health · Kentucky...
Date: Nov 2021
Explores the efficacy of an obesity prevention program aimed at rural Native Americans. Discusses the structure of the intervention and measures the outcomes. Breaks down the data by age group, region, and intervention component exposed to, among other measures.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Public health · Statistics and data · Tribal communities...
Date: Dec 2021
Study examining food access during the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural Appalachian community in Kentucky, based on qualitative data from 5 focus groups. Discusses food scarcity, supply chain disruptions, federal food assistance, community food resources, and home gardening, and highlights policy implications related to federal programs and social determinants of health.
...Appalachia · COVID-19 · Food security and nutrition · Infectious diseases · Policy · Social determinants of health · Kentucky...
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: Feb 2023
Profiles Healthy Hardeman Outreach for Healthy Weight (H2O), a partnership between the Healthcare Bolivar General Hospital (BGH), the Hardeman County Health Department, and Hardeman County Community Health Center to improve access to healthy foods and reduce obesity in the Tennessee county.
...Food security and nutrition · Networking and collaboration · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Wellness, health...
Date: Jan 2022
Provides an overview of how community action and human service agencies partnered, collaborated, and aligned services to address COVID-19 on a family-level and a systems-level. Presents field examples of partnerships in rural Maryland and rural Ohio with their successes and challenges when aligning services such as Head Start, housing assistance, and more. Discusses how rural models and strategies were employed in other geographic areas to mitigate COVID-19 issues in communities.
...Access · COVID-19 · Families · Food security and nutrition · Human services · Networking and collaboration · Maryland · Ohio...
Date: Oct 2021
Results of a study examining the association between neighborhood food environment and risk of type 2 diabetes across communities, with breakdowns by high-density urban, low-density urban, suburban, and rural locations. Features statistics including characteristics of the diabetes risk cohort, and incidence of type 2 diabetes by demographic characteristics, overall and by community type.
...JAMA Network Open, 4(10) 10/2021 Access · Diabetes · Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Veterans...
Date: Mar 2022
Results of telephone surveys of people in Martin County, Kentucky, a highly obese community in which healthy food accessibility is scarce and which experienced the closure of a local grocery store in January 2020. Includes demographics for the participants, and compares their food shopping habits at the time of the initial contact with those at the time of a follow-up survey a year later.
...Health, 19(6), 3506 03/2022 Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Kentucky...
Date: Oct 2017
Details the values, goals, and recommendations of food system stakeholders throughout Maryland and encourages coordination and collaboration for a healthy, equitable, economically and environmentally sustainable food system. Includes recommendations for the five major food system sectors: production and processing, distribution, access, consumption, and recovery.
...recovery. 10/2017 The Institute for Public Health Innovation Access · Food security and nutrition · Policy · Maryland...