MedCity News April 28, 2023
The Rockefeller Foundation is funding two produce prescription pilot programs at VA healthcare systems in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas. Eligible veterans will be able to enroll in About Fresh’s Fresh Connect program, which provides $100 per month through a debit card, allowing the veterans to buy healthy foods at the grocery store.
About 27% of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans are food insecure, according to research from Cambridge University Press. The prevalence of diabetes is about 5% higher among U.S. veterans compared to the general population, another study from the National Library of Medicine shows.
A new partnership between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Rockefeller Foundation and food and nutrition company About Fresh aims to...
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