Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Jun 2023
A program evaluation brief that provides an overview of the Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyle to Enhance Diabetes management (HEALED) program that surveyed patients in 2019 and then delivered plant-based foods to 40 participants as a part of a produce prescription (PRx) program in 2021. Reports on how PRx programs and related resources such as cooking instructions can positively impact diabetes patients. Discusses the importance of performing a needs assessment, pilot programming, and a formative evaluation in rural and underserved programs to remove food access barriers such as lack of transportation and involve participants in their own wellness journeys.
...Food security and nutrition · Health insurance · Needs assessment methods and resources · Transportation · Wellness, health promotion...
Date: Jun 2014
Describes a rural community effort to improve both the health and the economy of a region that once prospered from the coal industry. Veteran coal miners banded together to modify a historic building to house the Williamson Health and Wellness Center, which started out as a free clinic and is now designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center. Discusses the Health Innovation Hub event where entrepreneurial initiatives are presented and experts are available to help develop new businesses and healthy enterprises. Williamson, WV is a recipient of the 2014 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health Prize.
...Qualified Health Centers · Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · West Virginia...
Reviewed: Aug 2023
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.
...Hospital Association Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Michigan...
Date: Jan 2014
Provides an overview of the produce distribution system and challenges to sourcing fresh produce. Describes strategies and partnerships to ensure fresh produce is available at affordable prices in small food stores, including grocery stores located in rural areas, to provide healthy food choices for communities.
...food stores, including grocery stores located in rural areas, to provide healthy food choices for communities. Author(s) Hannah Burton Laurison Date 01/2014 Type Document Organization ChangeLab Solutions Tagged as Food security...
Date: Aug 2015
Presents summaries of 3 rural community profiles related to physical activity, school wellness, and improving nutrition. Includes information and strategies to promote health.
...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Schools · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Arizona · North...
Reviewed: Dec 2023
Searches PubMed's collection of journal article citations on the topic of rural hunger and access to healthy food.
...food. Type Literature Search Organization U.S. National Library of Medicine Tagged as Food security and nutrition...
Date: 2023
Highlights a study on a culturally competent educational program on healthy foods and physical activity for Yup'ik Alaska Native communities. Discusses the structure and efficacy of the project. Details some of its limitations and access-based barriers.
...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Nov 2022
Examines the Healthy Diné Nation Act (HDNA) which was passed by the Navajo Nation in 2014 to support health and wellness in tribal communities. Analyzes the process, implementation, and evaluation of the HDNA to understand its impact on public health policy. Includes historical information about the Navajo nation as well as diabetes data and HDNA funding amounts for specific Navajo chapters.
...Food security and nutrition · Funding · Policy · Public health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Aug 30, 2024
Describes the creation of a student-run grocery store in rural Cody, Nebraska, which has now been open for over a decade. Discusses recent rural grocery store closures across Nebraska, and the wide-ranging impacts on rural communities. Source: Flatwater Free Press.
...impacts on rural communities. Tagged as Community and economic development · Food security and nutrition · Schools · Nebraska...
Date: Dec 2023
Analyzes local government policies that support wellness, healthy eating, and physical activity in metro versus nonmetro areas. Utilizes Community Based Survey of Supports for Healthy Eating and Active Living (CBS HEAL) data to compare government structures, master plans, built environment policies, transit options, supportive food access policies, and more.
...food access policies, and more. Author(s) Adee Athiyaman Date 12/2023 Type Document Organization Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs Tagged as Food security...