Examining Relationships between Food Procurement Characteristics and Nutritional Quality in Washington State Child Care Settings | Zendy

Monica Lazarus | Zendy; Pooja S. Tandon | Zendy; Jennifer J. Otten | Zendy

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Examining Relationships between Food Procurement Characteristics and Nutritional Quality in Washington State Child Care Settings

Author(s) -

Monica Lazarus,

Pooja S. Tandon,

Jennifer J. Otten

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

childhood obesity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913

H-Index - 38

eISSN - 2153-2176

pISSN - 2153-2168

DOI - 10.1089/chi.2018.0090

Subject(s) - procurement , multinomial logistic regression , environmental health , psychological intervention , logistic regression , medicine , quality (philosophy) , supplemental nutrition assistance program , gerontology , business , nursing , marketing , geography , food security , philosophy , archaeology , machine learning , computer science , food insecurity , agriculture , epistemology

Sixty percent of US children 5 years old and under receive up to two-thirds of their daily nutrition in early care and education (ECE) settings. Although participation in the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is shown to improve nutrition, little is known about the relationship between procurement practices (where and how child care programs purchase food) and nutrition in ECE settings or whether these practices differ depending on participation in CACFP.

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