Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Emergency Allotments and Food Security, Hospitalizations, and Hospital Capacity.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding how social policies shape health is a national priority, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective

To understand the association between politically motivated changes to Nebraska's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) policy and public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used synthetic control methods to estimate the association of Nebraska's decision to reject emergency allotments for the SNAP with food security and hospital capacity indicators. A counterfactual for Nebraska was created by weighting data from the rest of the US. State-level changes in Nebraska between March 2020 and March 2021 were included. Data were acquired from the Censu

SUBMITTER: Lavallee M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10413163 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature