Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, Nursing Grand Rounds “ Finding the Oasis in Food Deserts: Food Access Awareness and Budget Conscious Nutrition, 10/12/2021 8:00:00 AM - 10/12/2024 9:00:00 AM, Food is medicine and can determine the outcomes of many of our patients. Access to food can be an issue and food deserts are often overlooked. Join us for a discussion regarding food deserts in NH and VT and how we, as clinicians, can assist our patients in utilizing the resources at hand to meet their nutritional needs.
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Presenter
Amanda B. Fay, MSN, RN
Clinical Educator, Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital
Learning Outcome(s)
At the conclusion of this learning activity, (at least 75% of participants) will be able to describe a food desert, including the distance and time that defines a food desert, in order to design a pragmatic nutritional disease patient teaching plan.
Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this activity have reported NO financial relationship(s)* with ineligible companies**.
*A financial relationship" includes employee, researcher (named as the PI), consultant, advisor, speaker, independent contractor (including contracted research), royalties or patent beneficiary, executive role, and/or an ownership interest (not including stocks owned in a managed portfolio).
** An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Bibliographic Sources
¢ Barnes, T., Bell, B., Freedman, D., et. al. (2015). Do people really know what food retailers exist in their neighborhood? Examing GIS-based and perceived presence of retail food outlets in an eight-county region of South Carolina. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 13:31-40.
¢ Economic Research Service. Definitions of Food Security. Retrieved from USDA ERS -Definitions of Food Security
¢ Dutko, P., VerPloeg, M., & Farrigan, T. (2012). Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts. A report from the Economic Research Service. Retrieved from Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts (usda.gov)
Activity Details
View Presentation
Presenter
Amanda B. Fay, MSN, RN
Clinical Educator, Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital
Learning Outcome(s)
At the conclusion of this learning activity, (at least 75% of participants) will be able to describe a food desert, including the distance and time that defines a food desert, in order to design a pragmatic nutritional disease patient teaching plan.
Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this activity have reported NO financial relationship(s)* with ineligible companies**.
*A financial relationship" includes employee, researcher (named as the PI), consultant, advisor, speaker, independent contractor (including contracted research), royalties or patent beneficiary, executive role, and/or an ownership interest (not including stocks owned in a managed portfolio).
** An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Bibliographic Sources
¢ Barnes, T., Bell, B., Freedman, D., et. al. (2015). Do people really know what food retailers exist in their neighborhood? Examing GIS-based and perceived presence of retail food outlets in an eight-county region of South Carolina. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 13:31-40.
¢ Economic Research Service. Definitions of Food Security. Retrieved from USDA ERS -Definitions of Food Security
¢ Dutko, P., VerPloeg, M., & Farrigan, T. (2012). Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts. A report from the Economic Research Service. Retrieved from Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts (usda.gov)
