Healthy food financing initiatives are a relatively new approach to improve access to healthy foods, enabling healthy food retailers to locate or renovate food outlets in underserved communities through one-time financing assistance. This paper provides guidance on using meaningful, measurable, and manageable methods to evaluate healthy food financing efforts. The authors outline a number of resources and approaches to quantify short- and long-term program effectiveness by capitalizing on existing data sources, maximizing application and reporting processes, and conducting longer-term multilevel studies.
Published: November 2013
ID #: 1073
Journal: J Public Health Manag Pract
Authors: Fleischhacker SE, Flournoy R, Moore LV
Keywords: Community setting, Food insecurity, Food outlet, Grocery store, Healthy food financing, Supermarket
Focus Area: Food Access
Resource Type: Journal Article
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