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Session: Food System Design to Ensure Nutritional Health
4305.1: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Food System Design to Ensure Nutritional Health
This session will explore the benefits of food system design and assessment in an effort to improve food access as it relates to nutritional health. It will also evaluate local food access needs and priorities.
Learning Objectives: Explain the components of a food system and their relation to promoting healthy food access Identify the benefits to conducting a food system assessment Examine specific local-level policy recommendations generated from the Oakland Food System Assessment to improve food access and nutrition Define local food access needs and priorities and articulate how local policy can best address them
Organizer(s):Deirdra Chester, PhD, RD, LD/N
Moderator(s):Deirdra Chester, PhD, RD, LD/N
4:30 PM   Using Food System Assessments to improve food access and nutrition: A case study of Oakland, CA
Heather M. Wooten, MCP
4:50 PMRace, Place and Distance Traveled: How Inner City Seniors Eat 5-a-Day
Kimberly B. Morland, PhD, MPH, Susan W. Filomena
5:10 PM   New York City Trans Fat Restriction - Preventing Heart Disease by Changing the Food Environment
Lynn D. Silver, MD, MPH, Sonia Y. Angell, MD, MPH, Gail P. Goldstein, MPH, Christine M. Johnson, MBA, Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH
5:30 PMSouth Bronx community food Assessment: Leveraging large organization, government and community based resources to transform food access and dietary health
Lynn Fredericks, Justine Dang, MHS, Leslie F. Boden, MSUP
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Food and Nutrition
Endorsed by:Maternal and Child Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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