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Date: Apr 2011
Describes barriers rural, low-income families face to access quality, affordable, and healthful food. Concludes that remedies used in urban areas will not help to fix the problem of food deserts in rural areas.
...Rural and Remote Health, 11(2), 1631 Date 04/2011 Tagged as Families · Food security and nutrition...
Date: Mar 10, 2025
Notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) announcing the adjusted income eligibility guidelines for States to use to determine the income eligibility of applicants to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). These guidelines are applicable July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. Source: Federal Register.
...Children and youth · Families · Food security and nutrition · Income support and assistance · Legislation and regulations · Women...
Date: 2020
Summarizes presentations and discussions from an August 7-8, 2019 workshop held in Washington, D.C. Reviews the status of current and emerging knowledge concerning innovations for modern food systems and strategies for meeting future needs. Addresses different perspectives on food systems and includes a presentation on food system linkages to rural economic development.
...Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Tagged as Community and economic development · Food security and nutrition · Policy...
Date: 2023
Summarizes workshop proceedings on assessing food intake and dietary supplements in adults aged 75 years or older. Discusses screening, nutrition practices, challenges, and policies related to elderly adults. Includes considerations of nutritional issues specific to aging in rural areas.
...Medicine Tagged as Elderly population · Food security and nutrition · Health screening · Policy · Statistics and data...
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: 2017
Highlights programs in 6 rural counties to improve the health and well-being of children and families supported by the Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative. Programs included the expansion of the early childhood care and education program, promotion of physical activity through the development of walking and biking routes, and improved accessibility to local foods and support for the local economy.
...Economics and the economy · Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Iowa...
Date: Nov 2024
Summarizes 5 listening sessions with rural development practitioners aiming to identify areas of research need by rural population researchers. Discusses trends in agriculture and food systems, community and economic development, the environment and natural resources, and health, healthcare, and disability services. Offers recommendations related to information sharing, community involvement in research, data gathering, and best practices and evaluation.
...Food security and nutrition · Infrastructure · Research methods and resources · Statistics and data · Stigma · Technology for health...
Date: Aug 2019
Examines the impact of Live Well Faith Communities, a 9-week, faith-based health promotion initiative undertaken in 14 faith communities in rural Alabama. Describes faith community policy and environmental changes related to promoting healthy eating and physical activity. Also discusses participant lifestyle changes.
...Community and faith-based initiatives · Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Alabama...
Date: 2011
Presents the results from a workshop, held November 16-18, 2010, which explored the relationship between food insecurity and obesity. Chapter 4 includes a section on rural populations.
...Tagged as Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Tribal communities...
Date: 2015
Provides a rural focus for the Healthy People 2020 priorities. Includes overviews of the top 10 rural health priority areas identified by rural stakeholders. (Volume 2 discusses priorities 11-20.) Topics addressed include: health insurance, primary care, emergency services, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, mental health, substance abuse, heart disease and stroke, physical activity, older adults, maternal and child health, and tobacco use. Each overview includes reviews of the relevant literature and models that rural communities can use to address the issues. Document is available for free download, after providing brief information about intended use.
...Food security and nutrition · Maternal health and prenatal care · Mental health · Obesity and weight control...