ArticlePublic health nutrition2017
Veggie Rx: an outcome evaluation of a healthy food incentive programme.
Article in Public health nutrition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05939349 (A Prescription for Health Equity), which is not on this map. Cited by 50 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Prescription for Health Equity: A Healthcare Provider-based Produce Prescription Program for People With Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
Who cites it
50 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Impact of Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Programs on Food Insecurity, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, and Health Outcomes: A Community Guide Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring food environment interventions for diet-related outcomes using a food sovereignty framework: a systematic review.Health promotion international · 2023Pooled it
- The effect of food prescription programs on chronic disease management in primarily low-income populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Nutrition and health · 2022Pooled it
- Healthy Food Prescription Programs and their Impact on Dietary Behavior and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Pooled it
- Urban poverty and nutrition challenges associated with accessibility to a healthy diet: a global systematic literature review.International journal for equity in health · 2021Pooled it
- Interventions Addressing Food Insecurity in Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review.Annals of family medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Chronic disease burden among Latino farmworkers in California.Frontiers in public health · 2022Trial
- Multilevel approaches to increase fruit and vegetable intake in low-income housing communities: final results of the 'Live Well, Viva Bien' cluster-randomized trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Trial
- "I don't have to choose between everything": Self-reported fruit and vegetable affordability, purchasing shifts, and healthcare utilization among produce prescription program participants in North Carolina.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Higher and Lower Intensity Outreach to Increase Enrollment in a Medicaid Food Is Medicine Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Predictors of Voucher Redemption in Produce Prescription Programs in a Primarily Low-Income Population With Type 2 Diabetes.Preventing chronic disease · 2026Article
- Integrating Food and Care: Evaluating Impacts of Delaware Food Farmacy, a Food is Medicine Pilot for Maternal Health.Delaware journal of public health · 2025Article
- Will a Programmatic Framework Integrating Food Is Medicine Achieve Value on Investment?Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- The realities of data derived from electronic health records to evaluate health outcomes, utilization, and cost of produce prescription programs: A multiple case study evaluation.Journal of public health research · 2025Article
- Food prescribing in Canada: evidence, critiques and opportunities.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2024Article
- Pediatric produce prescription initiatives in the U.S.: a scoping review.Pediatric research · 2024Article
- Current State of Food Prescriptions Used to Treat Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in the US Adult Population.Cureus · 2024Review
- 'Nobody Shops at the Neighborhood Store': Leveraging a Community's Pediatric Fresh Produce Prescription Program to Inform Future Participating Store Redemption Locations.Cities & health · 2024Article
- Clients' experiences and satisfaction with produce prescription programs in California: a qualitative evaluation to inform person-centered and respectful program models.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Food as medicine: a quasi-randomized control trial of two healthy food interventions for chronic disease management among ambulatory patients at an urban academic center.Primary health care research & development · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveOne challenge to healthy nutrition, especially among low-income individuals, is access to and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. To address this problem, Veggie Rx, a healthy food incentive programme, was established within a community clinic to increase access to fresh produce for low-income patients diagnosed with obesity, hypertension and/or type 2 diabetes. The current research aimed to evaluate Veggie Rx programme effectiveness.
designA retrospective pre/post design using medical records and programme data was used to evaluate the programme. The study was approved by the University of Albany Institutional Review Board and the Patient Interest Committee of a community clinic.
settingThe study was conducted in a low-income, urban neighbourhood in upstate New York. SUBJECTS: Medical record data and Veggie Rx programme data were analysed for fifty-four eligible participants. An equal-sized control group of patients who were not programme participants were matched on age, ethnicity and co-morbidity status.
resultsA statistically significant difference in mean BMI change (P=0·02) between the intervention and the control group was calculated. The intervention group had a mean decrease in BMI of 0·74 kg/m2.
conclusionsGreater improvement in BMI was found among Veggie Rx programme participants. This information will guide programme changes and inform the field on the effectiveness of healthy food incentive programmes for improving health outcomes for low-income populations.
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