Implementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in Texas

Abstract Background Partnerships between charitable food systems and healthcare systems have been forming across the country to support individuals and families experiencing food insecurity, yet little research has focused on these partnerships, particularly from a food bank perspective. The objecti...

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Autores principales:	Natalie S. Poulos, Eileen K. Nehme, Molly M. O’Neil, Dorothy J. Mandell
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Publicado:	BMC 2021
Materias:	Charitable food systems Healthcare systems Health partnerships Food insecurity Food bank partnerships Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a976cd2cacdb488096d472382acc73be2021-11-08T10:43:47ZImplementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in Texas10.1186/s12889-021-12031-w1471-2458https://doaj.org/article/a976cd2cacdb488096d472382acc73be2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12031-whttps://doaj.org/toc/1471-2458Abstract Background Partnerships between charitable food systems and healthcare systems have been forming across the country to support individuals and families experiencing food insecurity, yet little research has focused on these partnerships, particularly from a food bank perspective. The objective of this exploratory pilot study was to identify implementation challenges and facilitators of charitable food system and healthcare partnerships from the food bank perspective. Method Texas food banks with existing food bank/healthcare partnerships were identify through website review and support from Feeding Texas. Interview questions were tailored to each interview, but all focused on identify program components of the food bank/healthcare partnership and implementation barriers/facilitators of the partnership. In total, six interviews were conducted with food bank/healthcare partnership leaders (n = 4) and charitable food system experts (n = 2) about their experiences of working with food bank/healthcare partnerships. All interviews were completed via Zoom and took between 30 and 60 min to completed. Detailed notes were taking during each interview, and immediately discussed with the complete research time to formulate broad implementation themes. Results Interviews suggest unique implementation challenges exist at all levels of food bank/healthcare partnerships including the partnership, program, and system levels. Partnership-level implementation challenges focused on issues of partnership scale and data collection, sharing, and analysis. Program-level implementation challenges focused on food and produce expectations. Structural-level implementation challenges included issues of food safety, subsidized food regulations, and patient privacy. Implementation facilitators included leadership support, mission compatibility/organizational readiness, food insecurity training, and identify of partnership champions. Conclusions This study adds to the growing interest in food bank/healthcare partnership as it highlights unique implementation challenges and facilitators for cross-sector partnerships between healthcare systems and community-based charitable food systems. Ultimately, we believe that collaborative discussion among leaders of charitable food systems and healthcare systems is needed to overcome outlined implementation challenges to better facilitate sustainable, equitable implementation of food bank/healthcare partnerships.Natalie S. PoulosEileen K. NehmeMolly M. O’NeilDorothy J. MandellBMCarticleCharitable food systemsHealthcare systemsHealth partnershipsFood insecurityFood bank partnershipsPublic aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENBMC Public Health, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Charitable food systems Healthcare systems Health partnerships Food insecurity Food bank partnerships Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Natalie S. Poulos Eileen K. Nehme Molly M. O’Neil Dorothy J. Mandell Implementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in Texas
description	Abstract Background Partnerships between charitable food systems and healthcare systems have been forming across the country to support individuals and families experiencing food insecurity, yet little research has focused on these partnerships, particularly from a food bank perspective. The objective of this exploratory pilot study was to identify implementation challenges and facilitators of charitable food system and healthcare partnerships from the food bank perspective. Method Texas food banks with existing food bank/healthcare partnerships were identify through website review and support from Feeding Texas. Interview questions were tailored to each interview, but all focused on identify program components of the food bank/healthcare partnership and implementation barriers/facilitators of the partnership. In total, six interviews were conducted with food bank/healthcare partnership leaders (n = 4) and charitable food system experts (n = 2) about their experiences of working with food bank/healthcare partnerships. All interviews were completed via Zoom and took between 30 and 60 min to completed. Detailed notes were taking during each interview, and immediately discussed with the complete research time to formulate broad implementation themes. Results Interviews suggest unique implementation challenges exist at all levels of food bank/healthcare partnerships including the partnership, program, and system levels. Partnership-level implementation challenges focused on issues of partnership scale and data collection, sharing, and analysis. Program-level implementation challenges focused on food and produce expectations. Structural-level implementation challenges included issues of food safety, subsidized food regulations, and patient privacy. Implementation facilitators included leadership support, mission compatibility/organizational readiness, food insecurity training, and identify of partnership champions. Conclusions This study adds to the growing interest in food bank/healthcare partnership as it highlights unique implementation challenges and facilitators for cross-sector partnerships between healthcare systems and community-based charitable food systems. Ultimately, we believe that collaborative discussion among leaders of charitable food systems and healthcare systems is needed to overcome outlined implementation challenges to better facilitate sustainable, equitable implementation of food bank/healthcare partnerships.
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title	Implementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in Texas
title_short	Implementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in Texas
title_full	Implementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in Texas
title_fullStr	Implementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in Texas
title_full_unstemmed	Implementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in Texas
title_sort	implementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in texas
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Implementing food bank and healthcare partnerships: a pilot study of perspectives from charitable food systems in Texas

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