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881. Listening to Local Voices in Community Assessment: Access to Food and Physical Activity in Wisconsin's Black, Hmong, Latinx, and Somali Communities - Resources
Date: Jan 2023

Examines the barriers and facilitators related to accessing healthy food and engaging in physical activity within Hmong, Somali, Latinx, and Black/African American communities in Wisconsin. Includes feedback from community-led focus group discussions involving participants from rural and urban counties. Provides suggestions to create partnerships and improve programming.

...County-by-county data · Culture · Food security and nutrition · Immigrants · Networking and collaboration · Physical activity · Wisconsin...

882. Share Public Health: Rural Health - Resources
Date: 2021

Podcast series discussing rural life, employment, and health. Topics include successful communities, food systems, public health departments in rural counties, healthcare delivery in their rural communities, and workplace safety, among others.

...health · Food security and nutrition · Occupational health and safety · Rural-urban differences · Service delivery models...

883. HFFI Impacts: Nationwide Success of Healthy Food Financing Initiatives - Resources
Date: Jul 2022

Provides data and resources to show the impact and successes of healthy food financing initiatives (HFFIs) as well as a framework to evaluate HFFIs. Includes case studies from programs in New York and California, and rural areas of Ohio, New York, Colorado, and Pennsylvania.

...Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · California · Colorado · New York · Ohio...

884. Munson Medical Center: A Prescription for Long-Lasting Wellness - Resources
Reviewed: Feb 2026

Describes the Shape Up North Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program, an initiative of the Munson Medical Center in rural Traverse City, Michigan, in cooperation with local farmers markets.

...Michigan Health & Hospital Association Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Michigan...

885. Thinking "Bigger" About Smaller Places: Why Rural Health Planning is Critical to Successful Rural Collective Impact Approaches - Resources
Date: Mar 2017

Video of a speech by the president and CEO of the Rural Policy Research Institute. Presented as part of the Rural Health Lecture Series at the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina and co-sponsored by the South Carolina Office of Rural Health. Explores how rural health is affected by social determinants of health, such as availability of safe housing, employment opportunities, and healthy food.

...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Housing and homelessness · Planning and strategy methods and resources...

886. Impact Extra Episode - Rural Health on Life Support Emergency Rural Health Care Grants - Resources
Date: Aug 2023

Podcast episode featuring Farah Ahmad, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Discusses how USDA Rural Development (RD) invests in rural communities, including improving access to healthy foods in rural communities. Provides an overview of the Emergency Rural Health Care Grant program, which helped increase access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines, rural healthcare and telehealth services, and food assistance.

...Communications, Inc. Access · Community and economic development · Food security and nutrition · Funding · Healthcare facilities · Hospitals · Policy...

887. How a Desert Town Is Growing Its Way to Better Health - Resources
Date: Jul 2022

Highlights the work of a community garden program to address food insecurity in Huachuca City, Arizona, by offering fresh produce to the rural desert community through partnerships with the local library and senior center. Discusses the development of the garden, challenges related to water, and the efforts of the program to encourage healthy lifestyle through community and youth programming.

...programming. Elizabeth Bellizzi 07/2022 Access · Community engagement and volunteerism · Food security and nutrition · Infrastructure · Arizona...

888. Barriers, Facilitators, and Opportunities to Promote Healthy Weight Behaviors among Preschool-Aged Children in Two Rural U.S Communities - Resources
Date: Jan 2023

Examines barriers, facilitators, and opportunities related to supporting wellness and healthy weight in rural preschool children. Utilizes focus group interviews with parents, caregivers, and community organizations as well as observation of built environment to assess healthy eating and physical activity resources. Discusses wellness barriers and facilitators for preschool children at the family, organization, and community levels.

...Food security and nutrition · Infrastructure · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Statistics and data · Indiana...

889. Obesity and Diabetes in the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska: From Community Engagement to Action, 2014-2019 - Resources
Date: Aug 2019

Describes interventions implemented on the Winnebago Tribe reservation in rural Nebraska and Iowa, focusing on community-selected and culturally adapted policies, systems, and environmental improvements to reduce obesity and type 2 diabetes. Strategies include infant and childhood obesity prevention education, promotion of healthy foods and beverages, and improvements to pedestrian safety and built environment.

...Food security and nutrition · Health screening · Infrastructure · Obesity and weight control · Public health · Tribal communities...

890. Lack of In-Home Piped Water and Reported Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among Adults in Rural Alaska - Resources
Date: Apr 2020

Examines associations between availability of in-home piped water service and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in rural Alaska using data from 2013 and 2015. Assesses health outcomes such as obesity and self-reported poor health as related to SSBs. Includes statistics broken down by age, sex, household income, and education level.

...04/2020 Food security and nutrition · Infrastructure · Obesity and weight control · Population health · Tribal communities · Alaska...