Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment

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2013-04

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Gaskins, Scottie
Kolasa, Kathryn M.
Simmons, Rose Ann
Njuguna, Njeri
White, Andy

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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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Food , Environments , Policies , Changes , Healthy , Eating , Worksites , Wellness

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Topics in Clinical Nutrition; 28:2 p. 189-199

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10.1097/TIN.0b013e31828d7be5

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http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4152

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Family Medicine