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Evaluating the Dissemination and Implementation of a Community Health Worker-Based Community Wide Campaign to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Physical Activity among Latinos along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Description
Describes a culturally tailored community-wide program to augment fruit and vegetable consumption and promote physical activity among 5,686 low-income Latinos of Mexican descent living in Texas. Features demographics and statistics on changes in fruit and vegetable consumption over the course of the intervention.
Author(s)
Paul Gerardo Yeh, Belinda M. Reininger, Lisa A. Mitchell-Bennett, et al.
Citation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(8), 4514
Date
04/2022
Type
Document
Tagged as
Community and faith-based initiatives · Community health workers · Food security and nutrition · Hispanic or Latino · Physical activity · Public health · Statistics and data · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Texas