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Hunger Vital Sign Epilogue: Ongoing Research

Policy in Plainer English - December 20, 2022 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Dr. Ana Poblacion and Richard Sheward discuss recent research related to measuring food insecurity, and how ongoing research supports better strategies to reduce food insecurity & its associated health risks.  This episode features development & validation of a scale measuring changing levels o...

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Evaluating the AHC Model

Policy in Plainer English - August 08, 2022 18:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katherine Verlander, Deputy Division Director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hung...

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The Accountable Health Communities Model

Policy in Plainer English - August 07, 2022 18:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katherine Verlander, Deputy Division Director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hung...

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The CMS Innovation Center

Policy in Plainer English - August 06, 2022 18:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katherine Verlander, Deputy Division Director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hung...

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Introduction to Part 3: Accountable Health Communities

Policy in Plainer English - August 05, 2022 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
The Hunger Vital Sign explainer series continues with an introduction to the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model at the CMS Innovation Center. This model is testing the results of screening for health-related social needs and offering referral and navigation services to community resource...

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Hunger Free Vermont, Hunger Vital Sign & The Bigger Picture

Policy in Plainer English - July 04, 2022 01:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katy Davis, Community Health Initiatives Director at Hunger Free Vermont. Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hunger Vital Sign materials an...

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Conversations About Food Insecurity

Policy in Plainer English - July 03, 2022 01:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katy Davis, Community Health Initiatives Director at Hunger Free Vermont. Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hunger Vital Sign materials an...

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Partnering With Hunger Free Vermont

Policy in Plainer English - July 02, 2022 01:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katy Davis, Community Health Initiatives Director at Hunger Free Vermont. Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hunger Vital Sign materials...

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Validity / Reliability / Usefulness As Hunger Vital Sign Expands

Policy in Plainer English - June 12, 2022 01:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch.  Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., ...

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Is Hunger Vital Sign Useful?

Policy in Plainer English - June 11, 2022 01:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch.  Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., ...

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Hunger Vital Sign & Creating a Reliable Tool

Policy in Plainer English - June 10, 2022 01:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch.  Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., ...

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Hunger Vital Sign Validation

Policy in Plainer English - June 09, 2022 01:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch.  Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., ...

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Hunger Vital Sign & Risk Screening Tools

Policy in Plainer English - June 08, 2022 01:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch.  Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., ...

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Hunger Vital Sign & Risk Screening Tools

Policy in Plainer English - June 08, 2022 01:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch.  Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., ...

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Origin of Hunger Vital Sign

Policy in Plainer English - June 07, 2022 01:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website.  This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch.   Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R.,...

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Hunger Vital Sign Series Introduction

Policy in Plainer English - June 07, 2022 01:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
We're doing something a little different - this series of podcast episodes are a set of conversations explaining the Hunger Vital Sign risk screening tool. They're designed as part of a larger resource with reference materials, key point summaries, and implementation toolkits: https://www.vtfoo...

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Season Four Finale

Policy in Plainer English - February 23, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
A season finale. . . with special guests! Edward Phillips, MD, and Juna Gjata, creators of the podcast Food, We Need to Talk, join us to comment on common themes between the two series, and suggest what should be next in your food & health podcast listening line up. The  first season of Food, ...

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Season Four Finale

Policy in Plainer English - February 23, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
A season finale. . . with special guests! Edward Phillips, MD, and Juna Gjata, creators of the podcast Food, We Need to Talk, join us to comment on common themes between the two series, and suggest what should be next in your food & health podcast listening line up. The  first season of Food, ...

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Building a Team

Policy in Plainer English - February 09, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
This episode brings back previous guests and features a new interview with Christine Hamann, Director of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, to talk about cross training and collaboration. It continues our series of episodes that consider how to effectively introduce the food knowledge outlined ...

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Food as We Age

Policy in Plainer English - January 28, 2022 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
We talk with Chris Moldovan, RD, CD, FAND, and Director of Nutrition and Wellness at Age Well, an Area Agency on Aging in northwestern Vermont. Chris is also part of the Older Vermonters Nutrition Coalition. She provides examples of how our relationship with food and diet shifts with age, and ex...

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How to Cook

Policy in Plainer English - January 11, 2022 03:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Professor Amy Trubek, and instructors John Corliss and Emily Barbour, join us to talk about core principles of the courses they are developing in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont. Their curriculum combines sensory analysis with basic cooking skills to in...

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How to Cook

Policy in Plainer English - January 11, 2022 03:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Professor Amy Trubek, and instructors John Corliss and Emily Barbour, join us to talk about core principles of the courses they are developing in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont. Their curriculum combines sensory analysis with basic cooking skills to in...

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Food Journals

Policy in Plainer English - January 05, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Writer Alexandra Johnson helps us get the new year off to a strong start. Among the things she writes about is the practice of journaling to support creativity. You know what we'll all need to put into practice food appreciation as a tool to become adaptable in our diets? Creativity. It's time t...

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A Pause to Think Bigger

Policy in Plainer English - December 27, 2021 23:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In a special year-end episode, we reverse directions. This season is about bringing skills from food professionals to bear on how we shape our individual diet, but what about moving the other way - from individuals to commercial scale production? The main lesson from this episode is to listen ...

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Putting Appreciation Into Practice

Policy in Plainer English - December 16, 2021 15:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
We interview two chefs, Dale Conoscenti and Leah Pryor, about how to take all the food appreciation skills we've covered in the last episodes, and apply them to shaping what goes on our dinner plates. This episode mentions the 'sounds of water pouring' experiment, which NPR reported on in 2014...

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All You Need to Know About Flavor Appreciation

Policy in Plainer English - December 03, 2021 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Today it's all you need to know about flavor appreciation . . . or at least it's all you need to know to follow along the rest of this season. Nonetheless. We're bringing it all together in an interview with David Keck, Master Sommelier and wine maker at Stella14, who promises us that there's no...

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All You Need to Know About Flavor Appreciation

Policy in Plainer English - December 03, 2021 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Today it's all you need to know about flavor appreciation . . . or at least it's all you need to know to follow along the rest of this season. Nonetheless. We're bringing it all together in an interview with David Keck, Master Sommelier and wine maker at Stella14, who promises us that there's no...

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What Makes a Food Popular?

Policy in Plainer English - November 22, 2021 02:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Sensory professional Roy Desrochers explains how food producers can use flavor profiling methods to understand why consumers respond the way they do to products and how to make their food more appealing. Roy has had a long career in food, flavor, and smell  – he is currently running a grass fed ...

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How We Experience Flavor

Policy in Plainer English - November 11, 2021 23:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Author Rowan Jacobsen is the guest on this introduction to how we experience flavor, and the implications when something changes that experience - for example, if we lose our sense of smell.  Rowan's most recent book is Truffle Hound. If you want a primer in describing flavors, try his Apples ...

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Bonus Intro: Designing Better Health Care Systems

Policy in Plainer English - November 03, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
With some commentator's license, this episode uses a presentation by Dr. Shantanu Nundy to set the stage for a new season of discussing food and health care. It reviews key concepts from previous podcast seasons and considers changes to the systems for primary care that we might see in the near ...

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