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Whitney Carlson

The Impact of WIC Food Package Changes on Access to Healthful Food in 2 Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods

The availability of healthful food increased significantly in stores, overall, with more substantial increases in WIC-authorized stores

Revised WIC Food Package Improves Diets of WIC Families

Federal policy changes to the WIC program had the intended effect of increasing consumption of the prescribed food items.

Use of a new availability index to evaluate the effect of policy changes to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on the food environment in New Orleans

The WIC-AI is a simple tool useful in summarizing complex food store environment data and may be adapted for use in other states or a national level to inform food policy decisions and direction

Evaluating the initial impact of the revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food packages on dietary intake and home food availability in African-American and Hispanic families

Fruit consumption increased among Hispanic mothers and low-fat dairy intake increased among Hispanic mothers, Hispanic children and African-American children. Changes in home food availability were not significantly correlated with changes in diet.

Potential Population-Level Nutritional Impact of Replacing Whole and Reduced-Fat Milk With Low-Fat and Skim Milk Among US Children Aged 2–19 Years

Substitution of flavored milk has the potential to reduce energy and total and saturated fat intake with no impact on diet costs or micronutrient density.

GROWing Resources and Better Health Outcomes in Southwest Virginia

Cumberland Plateau Health District created this poster to highlight their local work establishing the GROW coalition to promote healthy resources in their community. This poster was created during the CPHMC […]

A Healthy Plaquemines Now: Using the Local Culture as the Cornerstone to Build a Community Coalition

Crescent City WIC created this poster to highlight their local work incorporating community culture into their coalition’s health messaging. This poster was created during the CPHMC project and was presented […]

The Food, The Friends and The Hungry Collaboration

Angelina County & Cities Health Department created this poster to highlight their work on healthy food access and local food pantries. This poster was created during the CPHMC project and […]

Scott County Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

Scott County WIC created this poster to highlight their local work promoting healthy food access through partnerships with food banks, Cooking Matters at the Store tours and sharing community resources. […]

Crescent City WIC “Hands Up” Video

Crescent City WIC created this video during the CPHMC project to highlight their local work on breastfeeding. Crescent City focused on incorporating cultural context into their healthy food messaging. Crescent […]