Storekeeper perspectives on improving dietary intake in 12 rural remote western Alaska communities: the “Got Neqpiaq?” project
Low intake of fruits and vegetables and high intake of sugar-sweetened beverages persists as a public health concern in rural remote Alaska Native (AN) communities. Conducting key informant interviews with 22 storekeepers in 12 communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region of Alaska, we explored potenti...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:8344255 2023-05-15T15:55:22+02:00 Storekeeper perspectives on improving dietary intake in 12 rural remote western Alaska communities: the “Got Neqpiaq?” project Koller, Kathryn R. Flanagan, Christie A. Nu, Jennifer Lee, Flora R. Desnoyers, Christine Walch, Amanda Alexie, Lucinda Bersamin, Andrea Thomas, Timothy K. 2021-08-05 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8344255/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34350814 https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1961393 en eng Taylor & Francis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8344255/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34350814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1961393 © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY-NC Int J Circumpolar Health Original Research Article Text 2021 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1961393 2021-08-15T00:34:31Z Low intake of fruits and vegetables and high intake of sugar-sweetened beverages persists as a public health concern in rural remote Alaska Native (AN) communities. Conducting key informant interviews with 22 storekeepers in 12 communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region of Alaska, we explored potential factors impeding or facilitating dietary change towards healthier food choices. We selected these sites as part of a multi-level intervention aimed at introducing more traditional AN subsistence foods, increasing fruit and vegetable intake, and decreasing SSB consumption among young children enrolled in Head Start (preschool) programmes (Clinicaltrials.gov #NCT03601299). Storekeepers in these communities agreed that seasonality and flight schedules were primary factors determining commercial foods’ availability. Several storekeepers noted that federal food assistance programmes that specify which food items may be purchased with funds received from the programme and community policies that set limits on less healthy items promote customer purchases of healthier products. The fact that storekeepers are comfortable enforcing government assistance programme guidelines, company policies, and tribal resolutions suggests an important role storekeepers play in improving nutritional intake in their communities. Text Circumpolar Health Kuskokwim Alaska Yukon PubMed Central (PMC) Yukon International Journal of Circumpolar Health 80 1 1961393 |
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Low intake of fruits and vegetables and high intake of sugar-sweetened beverages persists as a public health concern in rural remote Alaska Native (AN) communities. Conducting key informant interviews with 22 storekeepers in 12 communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region of Alaska, we explored potential factors impeding or facilitating dietary change towards healthier food choices. We selected these sites as part of a multi-level intervention aimed at introducing more traditional AN subsistence foods, increasing fruit and vegetable intake, and decreasing SSB consumption among young children enrolled in Head Start (preschool) programmes (Clinicaltrials.gov #NCT03601299). Storekeepers in these communities agreed that seasonality and flight schedules were primary factors determining commercial foods’ availability. Several storekeepers noted that federal food assistance programmes that specify which food items may be purchased with funds received from the programme and community policies that set limits on less healthy items promote customer purchases of healthier products. The fact that storekeepers are comfortable enforcing government assistance programme guidelines, company policies, and tribal resolutions suggests an important role storekeepers play in improving nutritional intake in their communities. |
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Storekeeper perspectives on improving dietary intake in 12 rural remote western Alaska communities: the “Got Neqpiaq?” project |
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Storekeeper perspectives on improving dietary intake in 12 rural remote western Alaska communities: the “Got Neqpiaq?” project |
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Storekeeper perspectives on improving dietary intake in 12 rural remote western Alaska communities: the “Got Neqpiaq?” project |
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