Publications by authors named "A R Hanks"
Article Synopsis
- Households facing food insecurity often adopt various dynamic strategies for sourcing food, especially in rural areas, a topic that lacks comprehensive research.
- The study aimed to analyze food sourcing patterns and their relation to food insecurity in rural Appalachian Ohio during the COVID-19 pandemic, collecting survey data from 663 households over multiple waves in 2020-2021.
- Results identified two primary food sourcing patterns: one emphasizing convenience stores and charitable sources, and the other focusing on supermarkets and farmers markets, revealing that food-insecure households preferred the first pattern more than food-secure households.
Objective: To evaluate the relationship between changes in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) enrollment during pregnancy from 2016 to 2019 and rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes in U.S. counties in 2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Doctoral recipients of public health play pivotal roles in the support and leadership of the public health industry and academic research. We conducted this study to assess and track the long-term career outcomes of public health PhDs (PHPhD).
Methods: We linked data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to the Survey of Earned Doctorates and tracked the long-term career outcomes and job placements of PHPhD from 2001 to 2017.
Food insecurity and inadequate nutrition are two major challenges that contribute to poor health conditions among U.S. households.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Transportation, access to follow-up care, and association with weight loss are understudied in the bariatric population. The objective of this study was to determine how transportation variables associate with postoperative attendance and weight loss through 24 months.
Materials And Methods: Seven hundred eighty-seven patients (81.