Exploring Community Gardens in a Health Disparate Population: Findings from a Mixed Methods Pilot Study
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: I t is increasingly clear that, when addressing complex health behaviors and social issues such as low fruit and vegetable intake among low-income communities, it is insufficient to rely solely on approaches directed at individuals.1,2 Nonetheless, there is a continued lack of interventions based on social-ecological models that elucidate how health-related intervention and policy development could effectively address individual-level behaviors, social influences, environmental influences, and the interactions among these multiple levels.Community garden programs are an important example of how a social-ecological model could be
Authors: Jamie Zoellner, Ashley Zanko, Bryan Price, Jennifer Bonner, Jennie L. Hill
Institution: Virginia Tech
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4244721831