Planning Community Nutrition Programs
This is the first essential step when planning community nutrition interventions.
What is a community needs assessment?
This model focuses on the perceived threat of a condition and the perceived benefits and barriers to taking action against it.
What is the Health Belief Model?
This document published weekly includes all U.S. regulations and proposed regulations impacting nutrition policy enforcement.
What is the Federal Register?
This food assistance program provides monthly benefits to low-income individuals and families to help them buy food, often distributed through an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system.
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
The World Health Organization defines this group as a social unit determined by geographic boundaries and/or shared values and interests.
What is a community?
This type of data analysis, involving demographic statistics and health records, is crucial for preparing a community diagnosis in nutrition program planning. (Hint: it is the counterpart to subjective data analysis)
What is objective data analysis?
In the Transtheoretical or Stages of Change Model, this stage describes individuals who have begun changing their behavior but have not yet made it a consistent part of their lives.
What is the Action stage?
This U.S. department is primarily responsible for implementing most public health and nutrition programs.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)?
This USDA program provides nutritious foods to low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants, and children up to age 5, as well as nutrition education and referrals to other healthcare services.
What is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)?
This three-level framework in community nutrition includes primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies.
What are levels of prevention?
This type of statement provides a clear and concise direction for a community nutrition program, aligning with the organization's philosophy and goals.
What is a mission statement?
According to the Theory of Reasoned Action, these two factors influence a person’s intention, which in turn predicts their behavior.
What are attitudes and subjective norms?
This is the main legislative body in the United States responsible for setting nutrition policy and passing related laws.
What is Congress?
This federal program provides funds to schools to offer free or reduced-price lunches to children from low-income families, helping improve their diet and academic performance.
What is the National School Lunch Program (NSLP)?
This type of prevention targets early diagnosis and treatment, including disease screenings, to prevent further complications.
What is secondary prevention?
The Stages of Change Model or Social Learning Theory are examples of these, which help in designing community nutrition interventions.
What are theoretical frameworks or models?
This theory, which involves the adoption of innovative behaviors, highlights key factors like compatibility, complexity, and relative advantage to predict how quickly a new behavior will be accepted.
What is the Diffusion of Innovation Theory?
This legislative strategy involves building alliances with various community groups, such as healthcare professionals and advocacy organizations, to support a nutrition-related policy initiative.
What is developing broad support?
This program distributes surplus agricultural products, such as canned vegetables, peanut butter, and pasta, to food banks and pantries, helping low-income individuals and families access nutritious food.
What is The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)?
This term describes the increase in Body Mass Index (BMI) that typically occurs between ages 5-7 and has been linked to a higher risk of obesity in later life when it occurs earlier than average.
What is BMI rebound?
This ongoing evaluation process provides information during the program’s implementation to strengthen or improve its quality.
What is formative evaluation?
This theory emphasizes reciprocal determinism, where behavior is influenced by personal, behavioral, and environmental factors.
What is Social Learning Theory (or Social Cognitive Theory)?
This food assistance program aims to increase the purchasing power of low-income individuals and families to improve food security.
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
This 1996 legislation transformed the welfare system by introducing work requirements and time limits on cash assistance, replacing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
What is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act?
This concept in behavioral design refers to environmental characteristics that subtly encourage specific behaviors, like flat surfaces inviting people to sit, thereby influencing dietary behavior indirectly.
What is affordance?