Library

Reports: Obesity

A Roadmap to Success for Rural Grocers: The North Dakota RAD Cooperative’s Journey to Sustainable Food Access
NDSU Center for Social Research, February 2025, 33 pp.
Examines the implementation of the Rural Access Distribution (RAD) Cooperative, a shared-services cooperative providing residents of Walsh and Pembina counties, North Dakota, with improved access to healthy food through a food distribution network that aims to improve food access, affordability, variety, and convenience for residents. more info >

State of Obesity 2024: Better Policies for a Healthier America
Trust for America's Health, September 2024, 116 pp.
This report examines adult obesity rates by state, looking at the health implications as well as social, economic, and environmental factors related to diet, nutrition, and physical activity. more info >

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Preventing Early Trauma to Improve Adult Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 2021, 4 pp.
A analysis providing comprehensive estimates of the potential to improve Americans’ health by preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Preventing ACEs could potentially reduce chronic diseases, risky health behaviors, and socioeconomic challenges later in life. more info >

The Food Retail Landscape Across Rural America
United States Department of Agriculture, June 2021, 160 pp.
Examines the landscape of food retailers across the United States, with a focus on rural America and grocery stores, distinguishing between national, regional, and local chains and single location stores and finding that the number of grocery stores has declined from 1990 to 2015. more info >

Local Laws and Policies that Promtoe Access to Healthy Food: A Food System Crosswalk
Healthy Food Policy Project, September 2020, 10 pp.
This report is designed to help local community leaders, advocates, researchers and others navigate food policy laws, illustrating how they intersect with components of the food system. It provides examples of how specific types of laws and policies fall into different food system components and types of strategies. more info >

Health Equity in Prevention
Wilder Research, January 2019
The Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota provided funding to organizations through the Health Equity in Prevention initiative to advance health equity through policy, systems, and environmental changes. Wilder Research conducted a review of tools than can assess organizational capacity to advance health equity. Evaluation work included conducting ripple effect mapping discussions with HEiP-funded organizations to understand project impacts. Reports also highlight policy work and lessons learned. more info >

Growing Local Food Systems: A Case Study Series on the Role of Local Governments
ICMA, Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems , March 2015, 26 pp.
This report includes a compilation of case studies that highlight the role of local government in establishing local food systems. more info >

State Indicator Report on Physical Activity
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May 2014, 15 pp.
Includes state-level data about individual behaviors related to physical activity, as well as the presence or absence of physical features and policies that can make being physically active either easy or hard to do. more info >

Promoting Healthy Eating at Food Shelves: Strategies for Success and Recommended Resources
University of Minnesota, January 2014, 12 pp.
A guide for what food shelves can do to ensure that people have access to nutritious foods. more info >

Economic and Community Development Outcomes of Healthy Food Retail
PolicyLink, November 2013, 22 pp.
Examines the economic aspects of improving access to healthy food through food retailing, distribution, and production innovations. more info >

The Healthy Food Financing Handbook: From Advocacy to Implementation
The Food Trust, January 2013, 42 pp.
Describes a step-by-step approach to developing state and local policies that encourage the development of supermarkets and other healthy food stores in underserved communities. more info >

Web sites

Food Environment Atlas
This website focuses on the accessibility and affordability of food retailers, examining the barriers people and places face to accessing healthy and affordable food and presenting research on the consequences of food access limitations on food spending, diet, and health. more info >

Food Insecurity among the Overall Population in North Dakota
Food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods. This interactive map provides data on food insecurity at the county level to improve our understanding of food insecurity and food costs in local communities. more info >