Hunger Screening - Part One
Policy in Plainer English
English - October 12, 2020 03:00 - 14 minutes - 9.75 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGovernment healthcare policy health policy health care vermont policy public health population health food policy diet nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kristen Bigelow-Talbert, from Bi-State Primary Care Association, and Katy Davis, from Hunger Free Vermont, discuss screening for hunger and food insecurity. If poor diet leads to poor health, and health care providers want their patients to stay well, then it makes sense that we would screen for poor diet just like we screen for high blood pressure, cholesterol, BMI, etc. - simple, right? Clearly not simple or we wouldn't be podcasting about it.
This episode provides background on the interest in screening for hunger / other social factors in our overall health, and some considerations for selecting screening tools. The second installment (linked here) looks at implementation, including lessons we might learn from trying new models during COVID-19.
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This season of the Policy in Plainer English podcast is made possible through a grant from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to plan for a rural health network that increases communication around the intersection of food and health care in Vermont.