Voices for food: methodologies for implementing a multi-state community-based intervention in rural, high poverty communities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rural communities experience unique barriers to food access when compared to urban areas and food security is a public health issue in rural, high poverty communities. A multi-leveled socio-ecological intervention to develop food policy councils (FPCs), and improve food security in rural communities was created. Methods to carry out such an intervention were developed and are described.

Methods

A longitudinal, matched treatment and comparison study was conducted in 24 rural, high poverty counties in South Dakota, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio. Counties were assigned to a treatment (n = 12) or comparison (n = 12) group. Intervention activities focus on three key components that impact food security: 1) community coaching by Extension Educators/fiel

SUBMITTER: Stluka S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108119 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature