Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education reductions during COVID-19 may have exacerbated health inequities

Autor: Gail Woodward-Lopez, Erin E. Esaryk, Sridharshi C. Hewawitharana, Janice Kao, Evan Talmage, Carolyn D. Rider
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: SSM: Population Health, Vol 23, Iss , Pp 101471- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2352-8273
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101471
Popis: Objective: Describe, and assess disparities in, the changes in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) that occurred the year before vs. the year when COVID-19 restrictions were implemented. Design: Observational study comparing reach, intensity, and dose of California Local Health Department (LHD) SNAP-Ed interventions in Federal Fiscal years 2019 and 2020 (FFY19, FFY20). Analysis: Student t-tests determined significance of differences in the number of Direct Education (DE) programs, Policy, Systems and Environmental change (PSE) sites, people reached, and intervention intensity and dose between FFY19 and FFY20 using data reported online by LHDs. Linear regression assessed associations between census tract-level characteristics (urbanicity; percentages of population with income
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