ReviewCurrent opinion in pediatrics2023
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as a health intervention.
Review in Current opinion in pediatrics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- SNAP Participation and Cancer Screening for Adults With Food Insecurity.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Food Insecurity and Adolescent Obesity in the United States: A Social Ecological Analysis of Multi-Level Risk Factors and Structural Inequities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Navigating SNAP waiver submissions: an Iowa case study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- The impact of ultra-processed foods on pediatric health.Obesity pillars · 2025Review
- Characteristics of state waivers to establish nutritional restrictions in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
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- Treating Childhood Obesity: Building and Evaluating Evidence-Based Models of Integrated Care.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2025Review
- "It makes you feel worthless." The lived experience of discrimination in the US food assistance system.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Support for Foods Allowed Under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Understanding And Comparing Economic Assistance Models To Improve Food Security And Diet Quality: A Rapid Review.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2025Review
- Ultra-Processed Foods and Childhood Obesity: Current evidence and perspectives.Current nutrition reports · 2025Review
- Qualitative Analysis of a Home-Delivered Produce Prescription Intervention to Improve Food and Nutrition Security.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Investigation of the Link Between Food Assistance Programs and Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents.Journal of research in health sciences · 2024Article
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- Trends in Recurring and Chronic Food Insecurity Among US Families With Older Adults.JAMA health forum · 2024Article
- A Narrative Review of Public Health Interventions for Childhood Obesity.Current obesity reports · 2024Review
- Investigating the Poverty-Reducing Effects of SNAP on Non-nutritional Family Outcomes: A Scoping Review.Maternal and child health journal · 2024Article
- Disparities in Cardiovascular Health by Food Security Status and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Using Life's Essential 8 Metrics.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- SNAP and/or WIC Participation and Diet Quality in Mother-Child Dyads living in Greater Boston after Pandemic: A Mixed-Method Study.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
purpose of reviewIn 2020, obesity prevalence among US children reached 19.7%, impacting about 14.7 million children and adolescents. Food insecurity among children is also a public health concern but has largely decreased or remained stable over the past decade, reaching 6.2% of US households with children in 2021. Given food insecurity and obesity's interconnected nature and their negative consequences on children's health, it is of interest to assess the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program's (SNAP's) impact on childhood food security, dietary quality, disease risk, and health outcomes. RECENT
findingsEvidence suggests that SNAP participants, including children, struggle to meet key dietary guidelines and perform poorly on key health indicators when compared with income-eligible and higher income nonparticipants. Children participating in SNAP were more likely to have elevated disease risk and consume more sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), more high-fat dairy, and more processed meats than income-eligible nonparticipants. However, research suggests that federal food assistance programs with more stringent nutrition standards - the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) - improve dietary quality, increase birth weight and gestation periods, and reduce childhood obesity, infant mortality and healthcare costs. SUMMARY: After reviewing the evidence on SNAP's impacts on food insecurity, dietary quality, and health as well as research on the health impacts of other more successful federal food assistance programs, we provide three policy recommendations to strengthen SNAP's effectiveness as a health intervention for children and families.
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