Establishing that Food is Medicine will improve the health of individuals, build strong community connections and save health care costs.
PEOPLE
can avoid illness and improve existing health conditions when they have access to proper food and nutrition.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
promote better health when they partner with health care to provide food, services and support.
HEALTH CARE
saves money when people are healthy and do not use high-cost services.
POLICY MAKERS
have an opportunity to integrate food and health care through payment and delivery reforms.
Programs DEMONSTRATING THAT FOOD IS MEDICINE
Learn more about programs that serve as models for food is medicine, such as Fresh Rx, which offers fresh, local food and support to improve the health of families while also reducing health care costs.
LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES
FRESH RX PILOT RESULTS ARE IN!
Fresh Rx has already saved an estimated $190,000 by preventing low-birthweight deliveries. Researchers project a savings of $5.3 million if Fresh Rx were available to all pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid in the City of St. Louis.
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Operation Food Search of St. Louis is embarking on a three-year, randomized, controlled study of 750 women and their families that would prove the economic and health benefits of providing pregnant women and their households healthy food during pregnancy and 60 days after birth.
View ArticleWHY FOOD AND HOUSING ASSISTANCE ARE ESSENTIAL FOR IMPROVING AMERICA’S HEALTH
Social determinants are a bedrock of public health theory, but US politicians don’t always talk about food assistance, financial aid or other welfare programs as part of their strategy to improve the nation’s health.
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