In a study led by researchers at the Food is Medicine Institute at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, a new screening tool has been developed and validated to assess Americans' access to healthy food. Designed to complement measures of food security, which focuses on people's experiences not having enough resources for food, the new tool--the Nutrition Security Screener (NSS)--zeroes in on whether people can regularly get and eat nourishing foods that support health and prevent disease.
New Tool Screens for Access to Healthy Food
In a study led by researchers at the Food is Medicine Institute at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, a new screening tool has been developed and validated to assess Americans' access to healthy food. Designed to complement measures of food security, which focuses on people's experiences not having enough resources for food, the new tool--the Nutrition Security Screener (NSS)--zeroes in on whether people can regularly get and eat nourishing foods that support health and prevent disease.