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Implementing food pantry nutrition policies: Perspectives from the field
<p>The charitable food system includes food pantries and are often used by individuals and households who are food insecure (Kuhns & Norotny, 2021; Seligman & Berkowitz, 2019; Sangye, 2013). Adults with any level of food insecurity have a 43% to 53% greater risk of developing a chronic disease than …
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Qualitative evaluation of a food pantry fresh produce donation program
The student, Starr'Retiece Gibson, accepted the attached license on 2020-12-08 at 19:28.
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Use of emergency food by food pantry clients in Fairfax, Virginia
Demand for emergency food at food pantries nationwide has increased rapidly during the past 15 years. Food pantries have varied policies for distributing food to clients. Clients of a food pantry in Fairfax, Virginia, were surveyed to determine their satisfaction with the food they received and to …
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The Perception of the Food Pantry Customer Receiving Diabetes-Friendly Food Boxes
Food insecurity is on the rise in the United States, and food insecure individuals are more likely to have diabetes than those who are food secure. Diabetes self-management may be impaired as a result of food insecurity, and there are limited studies that examine the effect food distributed by food …
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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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Dynamics of syndemic theory-based multilevel empowerment in food pantry users with diabetes
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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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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Helping Students Help Themselves: An Intervention to Facilitate Campus Food Pantry Use at a Public University
<p>Estimates of student food insecurity at California’s public universities range from 42–47%. This study conducted at a public university in California investigated the impacts of an intervention on increasing campus food pantry use by increasing students’ knowledge of the pantry and reducing …
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Coping with food vulnerability: the role of social networks in the lives of Missouri food pantry clients
This paper utilizes data from Coping with Hunger: Food Pantry Clients in the Central Missouri Food Bank Region (2005) to better understand the ways in which informal social networks are utilized by families and individuals coping with food insecurity. Social networks included family, friends, …
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The Exploratory Study of Consumers' Experience of Using Food Pantries and Their Self-Sufficiency and Quality of Life
BACKGROUND: Food insecurity and consumers' chronic dependence on social welfare designed for emergency use has raised concern for food banks and food pantry directors who are interested in consumers' experience of using food pantries and their self-sufficiency during the period of relying on food …
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Empirical analyses of the social safety net
Chapter 1: Food Pantry Policies and Nutritional Quality: Applying the Healthy Eating Index to Food PantriesFood pantries are a significant source of food support for families suffering from food insecurity in Minnesota, but studies have found shortcomings in the nutritional quality of the bundles …
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Addressing barriers to food access among university employees: reducing stigma and raising awareness through a community-based pilot intervention
… global population experiences moderate to severe food insecurity, affecting individuals across cultures, regions, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The city of Fort Collins, Colorado is home to Colorado State University (CSU), which includes a large population of both university students and …
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An Evaluation of Frank Brown's Free Market
… evaluation of Frank Brown Hall, Free-Market (Food Pantry), within the grant timeframe from January to April 2024. The central objective was to examine the distinct resource demands of students limited to selecting three items each day. By employing careful observation, effective communication, …
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The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Community-based Mobile Meal Programs for Low-Income Families
<p>Food disparity is a continuously prevalent issue in the United States despite the presence of programs, such as the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), to fill gaps in reaching those who are financially inhibited and do not have a sustainable …
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Large-scale optimization for green logistics and stochastic resource allocation for food security
… management and policy analysis problems in food supply chain systems utilizing large-scale optimization, stochastic resource allocation, and data-analytics methodologies. We focused on three main research questions: 1) How can retailers build green, efficient last-mile logistics system when …
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State of the art of supply chains and network design optimization in Emerging Economies : an Indian case study
… are currently delivering in rural India (food, pantry, commodities,'...). To the extent of our knowledge, this optimization network modeling has not been researched yet in developing economies. It was found that our methodology could help retailers get access to customers more efficiently. …
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Determining the effects on parental attitudes and parenting styles towards child rearing after participation in a rural parenting program
… Points Center Happy School or who visited the Food Pantry at Scott's Run Settlement House in Morgantown, West Virginia.;Cronbach's alphas were run on all measures with high reliability found on all except the program content measure. Cronbach's alpha for the attitudes reflecting …
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Culture care values, beliefs, and practices of Mexican American migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors
… place in the informants' homes and at a local food pantry. Interviews were audio taped and transcribed verbatim.Four major themes were synthesized from the research data: (a) health promoting behaviors are recognized and valued by migrant farm workers but are influenced by economic and …
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