Identifying Nutrition Risk in a Charitable Pharmacy Population
| Autor: | Bethany E Collier, Sarah M. Jones, Anna C Felmer, Jennifer L. Seifert, Jay M. Mirtallo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pharmacies
education.field_of_study business.industry Population Malnutrition Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health MEDLINE Nutritional Status Pharmacy medicine.disease Health outcomes Nutrition risk Food Supply Environmental health Pharmaceutical Services Health care medicine Community setting Humans business education |
| Zdroj: | Journal of health care for the poor and underserved. 32(3) |
| ISSN: | 1548-6869 |
| Popis: | While prior research has shown that food insecurity and malnutrition worsen health outcomes and increase health care costs, nutrition risk is rarely assessed in the community setting. Tools exist to screen for food insecurity and malnutrition individually, but none screen for both. This study aimed to implement a dual-purpose screening tool to identify nutrition risk in a community setting, to characterize nutrition risk in a charitable pharmacy population, and to identify patients who screen positive for nutrition risk and connect them to community nutrition resources. Of the 221 patients screened during their initial and annual qualification interview at the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio, 140 (63%) screened positive for nutrition risk. There were 84 (38%) patients positive for food insecurity, 14 (6%) positive for malnutrition risk, and 42 (19%) positive for both. Patients at nutrition risk were referred to nutrition resources, including food pantries, home-delivered meals, and SNAP. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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