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Food is medicine intervention shows promise for engaging patients attending a safety-net hospital in the Southeast United States

Public health organizations, including the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American Hospital Association, recognize the importance of achieving food and nutrition security to improve health outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and advance health equity. In response, federal, state, and priv...

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Autores principales: Owens, Caroline, Cook, Miranda, Goetz, Joy, Marshburn, Leslie, Taylor, Kathy, Schmidt, Stacie, Bussey-Jones, Jada, Chakkalakal, Rosette J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10613492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37905239
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1251912
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author Owens, Caroline
Cook, Miranda
Goetz, Joy
Marshburn, Leslie
Taylor, Kathy
Schmidt, Stacie
Bussey-Jones, Jada
Chakkalakal, Rosette J.
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Goetz, Joy
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description Public health organizations, including the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American Hospital Association, recognize the importance of achieving food and nutrition security to improve health outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and advance health equity. In response, federal, state, and private agencies are increasingly seeking to fund healthcare-based interventions to address food insecurity among patients. Simultaneously, nutrition-based interventions targeting chronic diseases have grown across the United States as part of the broader “Food is Medicine” movement. Few studies have examined the successes, challenges, and limitations of such efforts. As Food is Medicine programs continue to expand, identifying common approaches, metrics, and outcomes will be imperative for ensuring program success, replicability, and sustainability. Beginning in 2020, the Food as Medicine (FAM) program, a multipronged, collaborative intervention at Grady Health System has sought to combat food insecurity and improve patient health by leveraging community resources, expertise, and existing partnerships. Using this program as a case study, we (1) outline the collaborative development of the FAM program; (2) describe and characterize patient engagement in the initial 2 years; and (3) summarize strengths and lessons learned for future hospital-based food and nutrition programming. As this case study illustrates, the Food as Medicine program provides a novel model for building health equity through food within healthcare organizations.
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spelling pubmed-106134922023-10-30 Food is medicine intervention shows promise for engaging patients attending a safety-net hospital in the Southeast United States Owens, Caroline Cook, Miranda Goetz, Joy Marshburn, Leslie Taylor, Kathy Schmidt, Stacie Bussey-Jones, Jada Chakkalakal, Rosette J. Front Public Health Public Health Public health organizations, including the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American Hospital Association, recognize the importance of achieving food and nutrition security to improve health outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and advance health equity. In response, federal, state, and private agencies are increasingly seeking to fund healthcare-based interventions to address food insecurity among patients. Simultaneously, nutrition-based interventions targeting chronic diseases have grown across the United States as part of the broader “Food is Medicine” movement. Few studies have examined the successes, challenges, and limitations of such efforts. As Food is Medicine programs continue to expand, identifying common approaches, metrics, and outcomes will be imperative for ensuring program success, replicability, and sustainability. Beginning in 2020, the Food as Medicine (FAM) program, a multipronged, collaborative intervention at Grady Health System has sought to combat food insecurity and improve patient health by leveraging community resources, expertise, and existing partnerships. Using this program as a case study, we (1) outline the collaborative development of the FAM program; (2) describe and characterize patient engagement in the initial 2 years; and (3) summarize strengths and lessons learned for future hospital-based food and nutrition programming. As this case study illustrates, the Food as Medicine program provides a novel model for building health equity through food within healthcare organizations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10613492/ /pubmed/37905239 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1251912 Text en Copyright © 2023 Owens, Cook, Goetz, Marshburn, Taylor, Schmidt, Bussey-Jones and Chakkalakal. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Cook, Miranda
Goetz, Joy
Marshburn, Leslie
Taylor, Kathy
Schmidt, Stacie
Bussey-Jones, Jada
Chakkalakal, Rosette J.
Food is medicine intervention shows promise for engaging patients attending a safety-net hospital in the Southeast United States
title Food is medicine intervention shows promise for engaging patients attending a safety-net hospital in the Southeast United States
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title_fullStr Food is medicine intervention shows promise for engaging patients attending a safety-net hospital in the Southeast United States
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title_short Food is medicine intervention shows promise for engaging patients attending a safety-net hospital in the Southeast United States
title_sort food is medicine intervention shows promise for engaging patients attending a safety-net hospital in the southeast united states
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10613492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37905239
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1251912
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