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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"nutrition assistance"”.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Childcare
… food subsidies in the form of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have a positive effect on the amount of childcare in which enrolled households engage. Childcare is measured in minutes per day, and SNAP assistance is measured in dollar assistance. These effects are analyzed …
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Three essays on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Multi-level influences on seafood consumption among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants in New Orleans, Louisiana
… with seafood consumption among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants in New Orleans, Louisiana using a quantitative cross-sectional research design and survey instrument. Results showed only 50% of study participants (N = 238) consumed at least two weekly servings of …
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Exploration of Facilitators, Barriers and Opportunities for Faith-Based Organizations to Implement Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs and Partner with Virginia's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education
… The federally funded Virginia Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) delivered through Virginia Tech's Cooperative Extension and Family Nutrition Program, utilizes evidence-based programs to promote healthy eating and physical activity among limited income populations. …
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Investigating Student Academic Achievement, Discipline, and Attendance Outcomes of Nutrition Education Programs Using State Longitudinal Data Systems
… development, and academic performance. Nutrition assistance and education programs play critical roles in alleviating food insecurity. The Virginia 365 Project (VA365) was a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded multi-level school- and home-based approach aimed at …
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Dietary Intake Changes in Response to a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Reduction Trial for SNAP Participants and Nonparticipants
… is unknown if participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) influences the magnitude of improvement in dietary intake in response to dietary interventions. Adults with low socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have lower overall dietary quality as compared to those with …
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An Examination of Virginia's Adult SNAP-Ed Program by Cost-Effectiveness Using Program Cost and Participant Self-Evaluations
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) is an extension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that aims to promote living healthier lifestyles for low-income participants of SNAP with limited resources. This thesis aims to investigate the effectiveness of …
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"Movie to Movement: Creating Social Change with the Documentary Film 'Food Stamped'"
… areas. Policy also impacts the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) and nutrition education for SNAP recipients. Documentary film is a powerful medium that can be used for social change. This paper explores the ways in which documentary film can be used to decrease health …
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Are Heat and Eat Policies Affecting SNAP Household Participation?
… vary in the way they link the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). State practices that have come to be known as "Heat and Eat" (HandE) exploit a SNAP energy expense deduction in order to increase SNAP benefits. Sixteen …
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Evaluating the Economics of Gluten-Free Households
… Department of Agriculture (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Thrifty Food Plan (TFP). Of all food plans, the Thrifty Food Plan represents the lowest-cost way to meet minimum nutritional recommendations for vitamins and nutrients. The models require that the nutritional …
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Evaluating Participation In the Food Stamp Program Among Individuals In the New York City Medicaid Population
… Program (FSP), the nation's largest food and nutrition assistance program. More than 2.6 million individuals are enrolled in a Medicaid plan, which provides low-income individuals with public health insurance. Despite similar income and resource eligibility requirements of the two programs, …
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The impact of natural disasters on dietary behaviors
… study may be helpful for disaster preparation, nutrition assistance, and disaster management policy. Individual-level data (N= 351,229) from Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2011 survey were merged with county-level disaster declaration data from Federal Emergency Management …
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Language of Exclusion: A Mixed Method Evaluation of Text Complexity on Comprehension Within Selected U.S. Government Food Assistance Application Materials
… no extensive evaluation of government food assistance applications has been completed by an independent evaluator since the PWA’s passage. The objective of this exploratory sequential mixed methods research is to examine selected federal government food assistance applications (Supplemental …
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Exploring Illinois farmers’ food insecurity status
… status, income and any received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
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Fatal Restrictions: Exploring State-Level Abortion Laws, Sociodemographic Contexts, and Maternal Mortality in the United States
… poverty, health insurance coverage, public assistance, unemployment, and income, shape variation in MMR across U.S. states from 2018 to 2022. Using a state-level analysis, I classify abortion laws along a restrictive-protective continuum and use multiple linear regression models to assess …
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Two essays on stress and obesity: household and regional perspectives
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest nutritional assistance program addressing food insecurity in the United States. Due to the program’s reach, SNAP has been called to address other nutrition-related challenges facing low-income Americans including childhood obesity. …
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Reducing Sugary Drinks Among Young, School-Age Children: Formative Assessment of Print Materials for Parents
… to households enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The overall goal of the intervention was to reduce children's intake of sugar-sweetened beverages by encouraging parents to limit their availability in the household. This study employed two formative assessment …
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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"
… A wide array of private and public food assistance programs (The National School Lunch Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), food banks, etc.) may help to appease food insecurity. Despite these programs, food insecurity persists as a major public health problem in the …
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Farmers Market Access by Snap-eligible Mothers of Young Children: Barriers and Impact on Nutrition Education Programming for Cooperative Extension
… low-income audiences is an increasingly popular nutrition intervention strategy to promote consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables and address obesity. The USDA encouraged more farm to fork initiatives and efforts to connect low-income populations with fresh and healthy, local foods through …
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Postcolonialism and the Marshallese Diaspora: Structural Violence and Health in the Marshallese Community in Springdale, Arkansas
… and the Department of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to COFA migrants, as this was prematurely removed from the first Compact between the US and the RMI to the continuing detriment of Marshallese COFA migrants in the US. </p>
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