Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment

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Gaskins, Scottie; Kolasa, Kathryn M.; Simmons, Rose Ann; Njuguna, Njeri; White, Andy
Abstract
The paper describes the journey taken by Vidant Health (formerly University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina) to create a healthy eating environmnet on its entire campus. Vidant Health was among the first hospitals in the country to have a policy that defines percentages of foods that need to meet a healthy criteria. They also employed price leveraging to increase the purchase of healthy options.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4152
Subject
 Food; Environments; Policies; Changes; Healthy; Eating; Worksites; Wellness 
Date
2013-04
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Gaskins, Scottie, & Kolasa, Kathryn M., & Simmons, Rose Ann, & Njuguna, Njeri, & White, Andy. (April 2013). Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment. Topics in Clinical Nutrition, 28(2), 189- 199. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4152

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Gaskins, Scottie, and Kolasa, Kathryn M., and Simmons, Rose Ann, and Njuguna, Njeri, and White, Andy. "Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment". Topics in Clinical Nutrition. 28:2. (189-199), April 2013. July 11, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4152.
Chicago:
Gaskins, Scottie and Kolasa, Kathryn M. and Simmons, Rose Ann and Njuguna, Njeri and White, Andy, "Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment," Topics in Clinical Nutrition 28, no. 2 (April 2013), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4152 (accessed July 11, 2024).
AMA:
Gaskins, Scottie, Kolasa, Kathryn M., Simmons, Rose Ann, Njuguna, Njeri, White, Andy. Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment. Topics in Clinical Nutrition. April 2013; 28(2): 189-199. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4152. Accessed July 11, 2024.
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