Active project · Healthcare Capacity and Technology Development
Accelerating Food is Medicine
Healthcare systems have historically not had the practical tools to address and advance nutrition security in their patients. However, in recent years, compelling data have demonstrated the promise of “Food is Medicine” systems approaches to address food and n…
Healthcare Capacity and Technology DevelopmentMedically Tailored Groceries / Produce PrescriptionsCardiometabolic DiseaseUSPolicy Analysis and Advocacy
About this work
Healthcare systems have historically not had the practical tools to address and advance nutrition security in their patients. However, in recent years, compelling data have demonstrated the promise of “Food is Medicine” systems approaches to address food and nutrition within the healthcare system. Among the most promising are medically tailored groceries (MTGs), produce prescriptions (Rx), and medically tailored meals (MTMs), which each have been shown in a series of pilot studies and implementation projects to improve nutrition, reduce chronic disease risk factors, and efficiently utilize healthcare resources.
These interventions further build on several national trends, including growing patient, clinician, and policy maker awareness of the central role of food in well-being; accelerating consumer demand for, and corresponding industry shifts toward, healthier foods; continuing rise in healthcare spending for preventable diet-related conditions; and growing recognition that systems changes are needed to improve nutrition security and reduce diet-related diseases and disparities for all. Project Aims Aim One Increase awareness of and support momentum building for FIM interventions that can improve nutrition security and increase health equity in collaboration with healthcare systems; including two major FIM National Summits. Aim Two Collaborate with Kaiser Permanente to build the evidence for effective and scalable FIM intervention that improves nutrition security and health…
Why this matters
Produce prescriptions are projected to prevent about 126,000 cardiovascular events over ten years among U.S. adults with diabetes and food insecurity. Work like this tests how to deliver them where people already are, so the evidence can reach scale.
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