The SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework: demonstrating the impact of a national framework for obesity prevention in low-income populations.

ABSTRACT: The United States Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, known as SNAP-Ed, is the country's largest and most diverse community nutrition program. In 2017, nearly 140 SNAP-Ed implementing agencies (SIAs) and hundreds of contractors delivered nutrition education to almost 5 million people in nearly 60,000 low-resource sites. Millions more were impacted with social marketing campaigns and policy, systems, and environmental changes. This article introduces and describes the benefits of the newly developed SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework (Framework) and companion Interpretive Guide to consistently measure SNAP-Ed outcomes across different settings. The Framework uses the social ecological model as its underlying theory and features 51 indicators across fou

SUBMITTER: Naja-Riese A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6768857 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature