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The Impact of a Non-profit Market on Food Store Choice and Shopping Experience: A Community Case Study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2019
Research evaluating the impact of new food stores in “food deserts” have reported limited impact on eating and health outcomes of residents who live nearby.
Mengni Yao, Amy Hillier, Elizabeth Wall, Katherine I. DiSantis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Design and Testing of a Text Message for Use as an Informational Nudge in a Novel Food Insecurity Intervention

Challenges, 2023
Food insecurity is an ongoing problem in the U.S. with implications for health problems and social disadvantages. Past food insecurity intervention studies have targeted barriers to accessing healthy food.
Michael F. Royer, Christopher Wharton
doaj   +1 more source

The FINDING-Food Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study Addressing Food Insecurity

Challenges, 2023
Food insecurity is an economic and social condition involving limited or uncertain access to food. The problem of food insecurity in communities is influenced by economic conditions, food deserts, and barriers to accessing healthy food.
Michael F. Royer, Christopher Wharton
doaj   +1 more source

Food Security and Climate Change: Differences in Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Rural Communities in the Global South and North

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
This research highlights the mismatch between food security and climate adaptation literature and practice in the Global North and South by focusing on nested case studies in rural India and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Subhashni Raj, Sam Roodbar, Catherine Brinkley, David Walter Wolfe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Just and sustainable? : examining the rhetoric and potential realities of UK food security [PDF]

, 2011
The dominant discourse in 20th century UK food and agricultural policies of a liberal, free trade agenda was modified at the turn of the 21st to embrace ecological sustainability and "food security." The latter term has a long international history; the ...
Dowler, Elizabeth, MacMillan, Tom
core   +1 more source

Revisiting fruit and vegetable determinants: Evidence from Latin America

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
IntroductionIn the past decade, the public health discussion regarding fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption has been dominated by economic and physical accessibility.MethodsUsing an online survey in four Latin American countries, we applied a set of ...
Andres Silva, Andrés Astorga, Samuel Durán-Agüero, Alejandra Domper   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Senses and repercussions of student assistance on the eating practices of students from a Brazilian public university during the COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Student assistance (SA), regulated through the National Student Assistance Program (PNAES), seeks to meet the basic social needs of university students and is inserted in the field of public policies for higher education in federal institutions in Brazil.
Lara Vieira Constâncio Mota, Lara Vieira Constâncio Mota, Cláudia Roberta Bocca Santos, Flávia Milagres Campos   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Patients With Osteosarcoma: Local Control Outcomes With Dosimetric Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Osteosarcoma is a radioresistant tumor that may benefit from stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for locoregional control in metastatic/recurrent disease. We report institutional practice patterns, outcomes, toxicity, and failures in osteosarcoma patients treated with SBRT.
Jenna Kocsis, Shauna R. Campbell, Jonathan Jang, Eashwar Somasundaram, Chandana A. Reddy, Jacob G. Scott, Lilyana Angelov, Peter M. Anderson, Matteo Trucco, Zachary Burke, Lukas Nystrom, Nathan Mesko, Anthony Magnelli, Erin S. Murphy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disability and food access and insecurity: A scoping review of the literature.

Health and Place, 2019
A scoping review was conducted, using a social ecological model approach, of 106 articles examining the effect of disability on food access and (in)security.
N. Schwartz, R. Buliung, K. Wilson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Alan R. Barker, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Tomáš Sláma, Christina Schindera, Fabiën N. Belle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source