Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment
Author
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.
Date
2013-04
Citation:
APA:
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
MLA:
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.
May 10, 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
May 10, 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
May 10, 2024.
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