An Intervention to Increase Availability of Healthy Foods and Beverages in New York City Hospitals: The Healthy Hospital Food Initiative, 2010–2014
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An Intervention to Increase Availability of Healthy Foods and Beverages in New York City Hospitals: The Healthy Hospital Food Initiative, 2010–2014
BACKGROUND Hospitals serve millions of meals and snacks each year; however, hospital food is often unhealthy. Hospitals are ideal settings for modeling healthy eating, but few programs have sought to improve nutrition in all venues where food is served. COMMUNITY CONTEXT The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene created the Healthy Hospital Food Initiative (HHFI) to improve th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Preventing Chronic Disease
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1545-1151
DOI: 10.5888/pcd13.150541