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Dartmouth College

Nursing Grand Rounds Finding the Oasis in Food Deserts: Food Access Awareness and Budget Conscious Nutrition

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Overview

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)

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