Food and Nutrition
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In August, Urban Harvest launched its mobile market to bring healthy and affordable food options to underserved areas with limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables. The nonprofit collaborated... [read more]
Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) is developing an Automated Disease Surveillance (ADS) program using Stata statistical software. In addition to being able to analyze the health... [read more]
In collaboration with King County school districts, Public Health – Seattle & King County is developing school district health profiles that will inform school administrators and policy-makers... [read more]
Public Health - Seattle & King County (PHSKC), the NNIP partner organization for the Seattle area, is collaborating with other local open data organizations to make data more accessible and... [read more]
Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is... [read more]
D3 is doing program evaluation for a project through a grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Office of Minority Health, the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan formed the... [read more]
In October 2011, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis convened nearly 200 participants to a symposium on neighborhood indicators and data‐driven strategies. The symposium was focused around... [read more]
DMARC conducted its second round of interviews in spring 2011 with food pantry participants to know more about where they access food, food pantry usage, healthy & secure food etc. The report... [read more]
CBANA is translating national “Fragile Families” Data (Sara McClanahan et. al) to local analysis, creating estimates for the size of the population at various levels of risk... [read more]
MCIC is in the early planning stages to design an index for the retail food environment in Chicago. MCIC will consider population density, all current food establishments, transportation and walk... [read more]
I was involved in creating maps for spatial relationships between food pantry, local grocery stores and client’s travel distance to these locations. It was done for Des Moines Area... [read more]
A database of baseline measures to assess progress in equity across King County departments was developed by Public Health in collaboration with other departments. The measures will... [read more]
Race and Place Matter for Major Chicago Area Grocers. This report analyzed how geography and race impact grocery store locations in Chicago
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The Boston Opportunity Agenda is a $27million public/private partnership among the City of Boston, Boston Public Schools and funders to strengthen Boston’s education pipeline. Using... [read more]
Mapping 4 metro Council Districts, with public schools and parks located, for a group of churches that will do a census of grocery stores available in these areas.
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Public Health was awarded over $25 million in federal stimulus dollars, the largest grant in its history, for two successful grant proposals in an intensely competitive field. The two-year Centers... [read more]
For the next three years, HEALTH will track ten Rhode Island cities and towns using the CDC’s 24 Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity. Among the goals... [read more]
Food Access and Price is a follow up to a 2009 Ochs Center analysis that more than 70% of outlets that accept food stamps are “fringe food” outlets that often do not... [read more]
Created a new report on food deserts after holding a briefing then releasing the first report in a series on food deserts in Chattanooga: analysis of SNAP and WIC locations resulted... [read more]
King County’s regulation requiring fast food and chain restaurants to display calorie and other nutritional information went... [read more]
Community food security initiatives may, over the long term, increase the economic resources available to households to purchase food; strengthen local capacity for food production, processing,... [read more]
Local report as part of NNIP cross-site project on health:
"Research suggests that environmental factors likely account for the dramatic increase in... [read more]
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The Metro Chicago Information Center (MCIC) released a report in October 2005 on the disparate access to goods and services for some Chicago neighborhoods. MCIC’s report, "Chain Reaction:...
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