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661. Local Wellness Policy 5 Years Later: Is It Making a Difference for Students in Low-Income, Rural Colorado Elementary Schools? - Resources
Date: Nov 2013

Assesses 45 schools' environmental and policy changes resulting from implementation of a federally mandated program designed to increase physical activity and healthy eating, as a response to the childhood obesity epidemic. Looked at factors including number of minutes of recess per week, minutes of physical education, playground features, total number of fruit and vegetable offerings at meals, presence of a school health team, and familiarity with their district's policy and related state or federal mandates.

...youth · Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Schools · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Colorado...

662. Urban-Rural and Regional Variability in the Prevalence of Food Insecurity: The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin - Resources
Date: Aug 2014

Highlights a study on regional variability of food insecurity in Wisconsin from 2008-2012. Compares rural and urban areas of the state.

...08/2014 Access · Food security and nutrition · Population health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Wisconsin...

663. Adoption of Sodium Reduction Strategies in Small and Rural Hospitals, Illinois, 2012 - Resources
Date: Mar 2014

Results of a 4-month-long intervention in which 30 hospitals promoted lower-sodium food choices in their cafeterias and vending machines, and made available information regarding benefits of sodium reduction.

...Disease, 11 03/2014 Food security and nutrition · Hospitals · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Illinois...

664. The Rural Restaurant Healthy Options Program: Response of Rural, Local Newspapers to a Program Press Release - Resources
Date: Mar 2014

Analyzes 22 stories from rural, local newspapers prompted by a press release regarding their local restaurant participating in the Rural Restaurant Healthy Options Program, a health promotion program, to determine the overall response rate, quality of coverage, and promotion provided by local media. The program was implemented in 28 restaurants and all restaurants were owner-operated, family style, sit-down restaurants in counties designated as rural.

...Practice, 15(2), 217-222 03/2014 Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...

665. The CHANGE Study: A Healthy-Lifestyles Intervention to Improve Rural Children's Diet Quality - Resources
Date: Jan 2014

Describes the Creating Healthy, Active and Nurturing Growing-Up Environments (CHANGE) study. CHANGE is a community- and school-based intervention used to assess the quality of students' diets with the goal of preventing unhealthy weight gain among rural school-aged children.

...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · California...

666. CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report - United States, 2013 - Resources
Date: Nov 2013

Addresses the differences in mortality and disease risk factors related to behaviors, access to healthcare, and social determinants of health in both rural and urban settings.

...Food security and nutrition · HIV and AIDS · Health disparities · Health insurance · Mental health · Mortality · Obesity...

667. Improving the Physical Activity and Nutrition Environment Through Self-Assessment (NAP SACC) in Rural Area Child Care Centers in North Carolina - Resources
Date: 2014

Presents results from a study designed to determine if rural child care centers in western North Carolina meet recommendations for nutrition and physical activity. Also examines whether focusing on nutrition and physical activity is effective in improving the center environment, and if differences exist between school-affiliated and unaffiliated care centers.

...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Schools · Statistics and data · Wellness...

668. Statewide Dissemination of a Rural, Non-Chain Restaurant Intervention: Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance - Resources
Date: Jun 2014

Describes a point-of-purchase intervention conducted in 28 owner-operated restaurants in 26 rural counties in the Midwest. Features statistics with characteristics of adopters and non-adopters.

...06/2014 Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Iowa...

669. Associations Between County and Municipality Zoning Ordinances and Access to Fruit And Vegetable Outlets in Rural North Carolina, 2012 - Resources
Date: Dec 2013

Examines associations between healthy food zoning scores derived from information on local zoning ordinances, county demographics, and residents' access to fruit and vegetable outlets in 15 rural northeastern North Carolina counties. Includes data for all 15 counties by race/ethnicity, poverty, percent of population living in a food desert, obesity rates, and percent rural population.

...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...

670. Rural Disparities in the Distribution of Policies That Support Healthy Eating in US Secondary Schools - Resources
Date: Aug 2013

Highlights a study on food and nutrition policies in secondary schools drawing on data from the 2008 School Health Profiles principal survey from 28 states. Compares results by urban, suburban, and rural geographic areas.

...Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Schools · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...