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Factors Influencing Redemption Rates Of Wic Farmers Market Nutrition Program Vouchers
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Book Synopsis Factors Influencing Redemption Rates of WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Vouchers by : Sara Alexandra Beaber
Download or read book Factors Influencing Redemption Rates of WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Vouchers written by Sara Alexandra Beaber and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Relation of Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Coupon Use with Accessibility and WIC CVV Redemption Rates at Farmers' Markets by : Wesley Jack Tucker
Download or read book The Relation of Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Coupon Use with Accessibility and WIC CVV Redemption Rates at Farmers' Markets written by Wesley Jack Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fruit and vegetable intake is not uniform across levels of socioeconomic status (SES) and researchers have identified low SES as a risk factor for poor intake of fruits and vegetables. In an effort to eliminate public health disparities and increase fruit and vegetable intake, the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) program implemented additional food assistance programs, with a specific emphasis on fresh fruits and vegetables. The Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) provides pre-existing WIC clients with coupons to purchase fresh, locally grown produce at farmers' markets. In addition, Congress also approved the WIC Cash Value Voucher (CVV) program, which provides WIC participants with vouchers to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers' markets or grocery stores. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the relation of FMNP coupon use with accessibility and WIC CVV redemption rates at farmers' markets. Furthermore, this thesis addressed whether WIC shoppers redeemed a higher percentage of their WIC CVV value at farmers' markets or grocery stores. WIC CVV and FMNP issuance and redemption data were analyzed to establish overall redemption rates and total perecent of WIC CVV value redeemed. Accessibility was assessed using the Geographic Information System, which allowed me to calculate the distance that WIC participants would have to travel to redeem their FMNP coupons at FMNP-approved farmers' markets. The results showed that less than 1% of WIC shoppers redeem their WIC CVVs at farmers'markets in Arizona. However, the redemption of WIC CVV was significantly higher during the months when shoppers had the option of using both WIC CVV and FMNP coupons at farmers' markets. Furthermore, the percent of total CVV value redeemed at farmers' markets was 99%, significantly higher than grocery stores (93.5%). Average FMNP coupon redemption rates for 2008-2010 was 43.3%, well below the national average of 59%. However, my spatial analysis revealed that there was no significant association between the distance traveled to farmers' markets and FMNP redemption rates. This indicates that the distance traveled to farmers' markets is not a major barrier to redemption of FMNP coupons in Arizona.
Book Synopsis An Analysis of Barriers to the Use of the Special Supplemental Foods Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers' Market Nutrition Program by : Kenneth R. Byrne
Download or read book An Analysis of Barriers to the Use of the Special Supplemental Foods Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers' Market Nutrition Program written by Kenneth R. Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death in America. There is a significant body of research which has and continues to study the connection between a diet high in fruits and vegetables and the prevention of the leading causes of death in America from chronic disease. One population that doesn't get enough fruits and vegetables are those in poverty. Government programs like the Supplemental Foods Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) were designed to reduce food insecurity in such populations, and the FMNP may have the potential to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. However, redemption rates for participants enrolled in the WIC FMNP were 47% for the state of Illinois. There is a paucity of research on the FMNP; therefore, the goals for this study were to identify potential barriers to redemption of FMNP checks, evaluate the magnitude of agreement between WIC coordinators and WIC participants, and to surmise if perceived barriers vary by ethnicity.
Book Synopsis The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) by : Xuemei Li
Download or read book The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) written by Xuemei Li and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is the third largest food assistance program in the United States and many studies have demonstrated positive health benefits from participation in WIC. However, several barriers prevent potential recipients from joining and fully utilizing available benefits. First, the participation rate is disturbingly low and has fallen in recent years to about 55 percent. Second, I have uncovered evidence of a high rate of partial or non-redemption of benefits by program participants, meaning the participant is obtaining none or only part of the food benefits that have been prescribed. Third, WIC is not anentitlement program, so its ability to serve clientele depends on cost efficiency, but many aspects of the program are ill-suited to achieving cost efficiency. This dissertation focuses on these major problems of the WIC program and investigates the impact of various WIC polices on WIC participants and WIC program cost. WIC has mandated changes to its food issuance and redemption method from paper vouchers to electronic benefit transfer (EBT) by 2020. In the first chapter of my dissertation, I study the changes in WIC program participation and program food costs after EBT transition. County level WIC enrollment data and WIC food issuance and redemption data in Oklahoma are used to perform the empirical analysis. The transition to EBT has been anticipated to increase participation and decrease food costs because it provides WIC participants more flexibility in redeeming food benefits, reduces the time cost and stigma cost of WIC participants, and prevents redemption of expensive, non-WIC-eligible food items. However, I find no statistically significant change in program participation after EBT transition. But EBT reduced average participant food costs about $8.24 per month in Oklahoma. Applying these savings to WIC participants in all the states generates $56 million in estimated cost savings annually. The second chapter of my dissertation focuses on partial redemptions and factors that affect WIC participants' redemption behavior. A partial redemption occurs when a participant redeems only a portion of the prescribed benefit, thereby not obtaining the full nutritional benefit. Partial redemptions are a major issue for the WIC program because considerable research has demonstrated the positive health benefits from WIC, but those benefits are mitigated if participants don't purchase and consume their prescribed foods. Using the transaction-level WIC redemption data, I study the probability that a household partially redeems its benefits in a given month, andthe factors that could affect this probability. The results identify WIC products that are most likely to be partial redeemed and household characteristics associated with partial redemptions, enabling targeted nutritional counseling. The third chapter of my dissertation focuses on WIC participants' food choices and explores the role that choice of WIC-authorized brands, package sizes, product types, etc. have in determining program food costs. State programs have discretion in designating foods eligible for the WIC program, subject to regulations set by the federal government. I combine WIC administrative data with IRI supermarket scanner data to simulate WIC participants' shopping behavior and compare the results with the actual food redemption data from California WIC. I find that the actual shopping patterns of California WIC participants closely resemble a situation wherein participants select the most expensive authorized products, brands, and package sizes. The policy implications from this study suggest that restricting participant product selection to least cost brands WIC foods leads to program cost savings between 4.6 percent and 9.5 percent, depending upon the food packages.
Book Synopsis WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program by :
Download or read book WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This flier on the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program explains how to redeem WIC Farmers' Market benefits.
Book Synopsis WIC Program: More Detailed Price & Quantity Data Could Enhance Agriculture’s Assessment of WIC Program Expenditures by :
Download or read book WIC Program: More Detailed Price & Quantity Data Could Enhance Agriculture’s Assessment of WIC Program Expenditures written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Exploration of Attitudes and Perceptions of Cash Value Vouchers in the Arizona Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) by : Farryl M. W. Bertmann
Download or read book An Exploration of Attitudes and Perceptions of Cash Value Vouchers in the Arizona Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) written by Farryl M. W. Bertmann and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October, 2009, participants of the Arizona Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) began receiving monthly Cash Value Vouchers (CVV) worth between six and 10 dollars towards the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables. Data from the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) showed CVV redemption rates in the first two years of the program were lower than the national average of 77% redemption. In response, the ADHS WIC Food List was expanded to also include canned and frozen fruits and vegetables. More recent data from ADHS suggest that redemption rates are improving, but variably exist among different WIC sub-populations. The purpose of this project was to identify themes related to the ease or difficulty of WIC CVV use amongst different categories of low-redeeming WIC participants. A total of 8 focus groups were conducted, four at a clinic in each of two Valley cities: Surprise and Mesa. Each of the four focus groups comprised one of four targeted WIC participant categories: pregnant, postpartum, breastfeeding, and children with participation ranging from 3-9 participants per group. Using the general inductive approach, recordings of the focus groups were transcribed, hand-coded and uploaded into qualitative analysis software resulting in four emergent themes including: interactions and shopping strategies, maximizing WIC value, redemption issues, and effect of rule change. Researchers identified twelve different subthemes related to the emergent theme of interactions and strategies to improve their experience, including economic considerations during redemption. Barriers related to interactions existed that made their purchase difficult, most notably anger from the cashier and other shoppers. However, participants made use of a number of strategies to facilitate WIC purchases or extract more value out of WIC benefits, such as pooling their CVV. Finally, it appears that the fruit and vegetable rule change was well received by those who were aware of the change. These data suggest a number of important avenues for future research, including verifying these themes are important within a larger, representative sample of Arizona WIC participants, and exploring strategies to minimize barriers identified by participants, such as use of electronic benefits transfer-style cards (EBT).
Book Synopsis Barriers to WIC Benefits Redemption Among Participants in Washington State by : Shelly Najjar
Download or read book Barriers to WIC Benefits Redemption Among Participants in Washington State written by Shelly Najjar and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To generate knowledge about the experience of using Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) checks to improve WIC check redemption rates. Qualitative analysis of focus group discussions. Two WIC clinics in areas that have high redemption rates for WIC checks and one clinic in an area with low redemption rates in Washington State. Twenty three WIC participants in five focus groups. Phenomenon of interest: Barriers and enhancers of WIC check redemption, especially the cash value voucher (CVV) for fruits and vegetables. Transcriptions were coded; coded statements were organized into major themes across a socioecologic framework. Coding structures and analysis were strengthened by iterative interactions between researchers. Barriers to redemption arise from multiple sociological levels, but benefits and positive factors, as well as solutions participants use, may lessen the effects of barriers. Factors negatively impacting the WIC shopping experience included food package policies, grocery store experiences, and personal misunderstanding and embarrassment; positive factors included helpful vendors and both vendor and participant understandings about the use of CVV. WIC check redemption may be improved by state and local actions to educate participants and vendors and improve the shopping experience.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1124 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2005 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Download or read book Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2005 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Impact Evaluation of the Washington State WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program by : Shirley M. Broughton
Download or read book An Impact Evaluation of the Washington State WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program written by Shirley M. Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program by : Carl. W. Ek
Download or read book WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program written by Carl. W. Ek and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :2 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (82 download)
Book Synopsis WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program by : Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.)
Download or read book WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program written by Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309450195 Total Pages :1063 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Review of WIC Food Packages by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Review of WIC Food Packages written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 1063 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serve over 8 million pregnant women, and mothers of and their infants and young children. Today the program serves more than a quarter of the pregnant women and half of the infants in the United States, at an annual cost of about $6.2 billion. Through its contribution to the nutritional needs of pregnant, breastfeeding, and post-partum women; infants; and children under 5 years of age; this federally supported nutrition assistance program is integral to meeting national nutrition policy goals for a significant portion of the U.S. population. To assure the continued success of the WIC, Congress mandated that the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reevaluate the program's food packages every 10 years. In 2014, the USDA asked the Institute of Medicine to undertake this reevaluation to ensure continued alignment with the goals of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In this third report, the committee provides its final analyses, recommendations, and the supporting rationale.
Book Synopsis Factors Influencing SNAP Benefit Acceptance Program Utilization Rates at Farmers Markets by : Nicole Howley
Download or read book Factors Influencing SNAP Benefit Acceptance Program Utilization Rates at Farmers Markets written by Nicole Howley and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) run under the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service is the largest program aimed at addressing food access and hunger in the country. Since the conversion of benefit provision from physical "stamps" to Electronic Benefit Transfer cards (EBT cards), tracking and administering of benefits has become more efficient, but the change has also placed limits on farmers’ and farmers markets’ ability to accept these benefits as payment in exchange for affordable and nutritious food products. Within the past few decades, the federal government, states, cities, and farmers markets across the country themselves have been implementing and improving programs to facilitate EBT transactions while simultaneously attempting to spread awareness of such initiatives and the benefits of farmers markets to SNAP customers. The Rochester Public Market serves as a national example of SNAP benefit acceptance at farmers markets, accepting over half of a million dollars in SNAP benefits annually and 3.2% of the SNAP benefits spent at farmers market nationwide in 2015. This disproportionately high rate of SNAP benefit acceptance begs the question, what factors influence these rates and what can other markets do to increase utilization rates of SNAP acceptance programs at their market as well?"--Abstract.
Author :The Law The Law Library Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781727888812 Total Pages :32 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (888 download)
Book Synopsis Wic Farmers Market Nutrition Program (Fmnp) - Nondiscretionary Provisions of Public Law 108-265, the Child Nutrition and Wic Reauthorization ACT (Us Food and Nutrition Service Regulation) (Fns) (2018 Edition) by : The Law The Law Library
Download or read book Wic Farmers Market Nutrition Program (Fmnp) - Nondiscretionary Provisions of Public Law 108-265, the Child Nutrition and Wic Reauthorization ACT (Us Food and Nutrition Service Regulation) (Fns) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) - Nondiscretionary Provisions of Public Law 108-265, the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act (US Food and Nutrition Service Regulation) (FNS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) - Nondiscretionary Provisions of Public Law 108-265, the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act (US Food and Nutrition Service Regulation) (FNS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This interim final rule amends the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) regulations to codify three FMNP nondiscretionary provisions mandated in the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004. The three nondiscretionary provisions include the option to authorize roadside stands, a reduction in the required amount of State matching funds, and an increase in the maximum Federal benefit level. These changes are intended to increase State agency flexibility in managing the Program. The first two provisions became effective on October 1, 2004, while the increased maximum Federal FMNP benefit level was effective as of June 30, 2004. This book contains: - The complete text of the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) - Nondiscretionary Provisions of Public Law 108-265, the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act (US Food and Nutrition Service Regulation) (FNS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Book Synopsis WIC & senior farmers market nutrition program by :
Download or read book WIC & senior farmers market nutrition program written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program by : Oregon. WIC Program
Download or read book WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program written by Oregon. WIC Program and published by . This book was released on 2004* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
