Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment
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2012-10
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Gaskins, Scottie
Simmons, Rose Ann
Kolasa, Kathryn M.
Njuguna, Njeri
White, Andy
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This paper documents the steps Vidant Health took from 2003 to 2012 in creating a healthy food environment. It describes criteria for foods to be sold/provided to employees and visitors. It provides a rationale for selecting calories as the primary criteria in defining a healthy food as well as price leveraging. It describes the corporate policy that was created to support this environmental change
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Evolving Perspectives Patient Care Journal; :25 p. 53-65
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10.1097/TIN.0b013e31828d7be5