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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"food assistance programs"”.
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Three Essays on the Implementation of Food Assistance Programs
… to state and local officials administering food assistance programs for improving children’s utilization of services, nutritional intake, and food security. More specifically, this dissertation consists of three chapters pertaining to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the …
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Evaluation of Food Assistance Programs and Implications of Patients' Health Information Seeking
… this dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of food assistance by gathering evidence from developing countries and the United States. The first essay applies a multi-market model to three developing countries and simulate recent spikes in staple prices and food aid impacts. Results indicate that …
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Bridging the Gap: Community Gardens as a Supplement to Senior Adult Food Assistance Programs
<p>Food insecurity and access to nutrition-rich food for senior adults receiving food assistance is an ever-growing concern in the United States. For households that lack accessible food, the availability of alternative sources of nutrition such as community gardens could be critically important to …
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Are Community Food Assistance Programs Meeting the Needs Of Food-Insecure Households in Pittsburgh's North Side Neighborhoods?
… with three householders and three community food program managers were conducted to explore if food assistance programs meet the needs of residents in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhoods. Findings show that insufficient income is the main factor contributing to household food insecurity. …
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Food Security, Diet Quality and Health of Food Pantry Participants in the North End of Hartford
<p> Food insecurity is an increasingly urgent problem in the United States. Food security is defined as having “consistent access to enough food for active healthy living.” Those who are food insecure typically lack access to healthy food, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, facing increased …
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Decolonizing Diet
… that obesity and diabetes pose by a return to food ways practiced by Indigenous people prior to the arrival of Europeans and the replacement of indigenous foods with the colonial diet. The resurrection of indigenous food ways impacts health and wholeness, promotes cultural identity, and creates …
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Understanding How Participating in a Food-Assistance Program In Rural Guatemala Alters Household Dietary Choices
<p>There is growing concern that food-assistance programs may contribute to overweight and obesity, but the factors that determine households' decisions regarding food quality and quantity in the context of food aid are not well understood. We studied these decisions using the community randomized …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… dissertation tracks the remarkable growth of food assistance in the U.S. over the past fifteen years and asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become …
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"""Some of these kids are gonna be my nurses, some of these kids are gonna be my doctors, but they can't be if they're hungry"": a qualitative inquiry of a school-based weekend feeding program"
Food insecurity is defined as the access to all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. In 2009, 14.7 percent of households in the United States were food insecure, and that included 5.7 percent of households that had very low food security. In 10.6 percent of households …
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Prevalence and Determinants of Chronic Diseases Among Food Pantry Users in Washoe County
… of chronic disease has been associated with food insecurity, as individuals in these populations do not have access to healthcare and nutritionally safe foods due to financial constraints. The inception of food assistance programs in the early 1990's was to relieve food-insecure individuals …
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Food access, self-rated health, and diabetes self-efficacy among prenatal women in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
… resulting in pandemic-related behaviors such as food and water stockpiling (FWS). Consumer FWS behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic posed a demand shock in the food supply chains, affecting access to food by nutritionally vulnerable individuals, particularly prenatal women with gestational …
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Childhood Obesity and the Home Environment
… income (p<0.05) and also participated in fewer food assistance programs (p<0.05). Despite this small difference, Smart Choices reached a sample that was representative of the larger target population and was effective in reducing BMI z-score, increasing lean muscle mass, and improving HRQL of …
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The heterogeneous impacts of energy type and metering systems on household welfare: insights from Ghana and South Africa
… between prepaid electricity metering and food insecurity in South Africa, revealing how prepayment systems can exacerbate hunger due to their advance payment requirement. Furthermore, the research explores the link between prepaid electricity metering and energy poverty, showing that such …