Obesity: Helping Haywood residents live well and live long by promoting physical activity, healthy eating, and quality healthcare.

Five daily servings of fruits and vegetables

Current Value

5%

2021

Definition

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Story Behind the Indicator

What's Helping? These are the positive forces are work in our community and beyond that influence this issue in our community.

Grant funding to Haywood County HHSA administered by NC State University provides free Diabetes Prevention Program classes with incentives.
Double Up Food Bucks provides bonus to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients at Haywood's Historic Farmer's Market.
The Canton Library cultivates a 'Giving Garden.'
Participating Farmer's Market vendors donate extra produce to Haywood Gleaners. Grant funding compensates the vendors for these donations.

What's Hurting? These are the negative forces are work in our community and beyond that influence this issue in our community.

Challenges accessing affordable foods: ‘Foods found at convenience stores and ‘dollar’’ stores in less populated geographic areas tend to be highly processed high in sodium & sugar, etc.’ -Community Leader (Online Key Informant Survey- WNC Health Network, 2021)
Typical day is extremely stressful- 12% (WNCHN, 2021)
Increase in diabetes- 18.6% (WNCHN, 2021)
Transportation is a barrier for many residents. While public transportation exists and is making great strides, it is still a gap for some individuals.

Partners With A Role To Play

Partners With a Role in Helping Our Community Do Better on This Issue:

Agency	Person	Role
Haywood County Health and Human Services	WIC, Health Education, and Food and Nutrition Services Staff	Lead, Collaborate
Haywood County Cooperative Extension	Julie Sawyer/Sally Dixon	Lead
MountainWise	Lauren Wood/Paige Robinson	Support
Haywood County Public Library	Jennifer Stuart	Support
Food Security Network	Participating Food Providers	Lead
Food Policy Council	Blake Hart	Lead

What Works to Do Better

(A) Actions and Approaches Identified by Our Partners These are actions and approaches that our partners think can make a difference on fruit and vegetable consumption.

Existing Programs
- Steps to Health: pre-k, kindergarten, 3rd grade, 4th grade
- Color Me Healthy
- Take Control programs
- Cook Smart, Eat Smart
- Med Instead of Meds
Canton Library- emphasis on community gardening
Food Council- upstream solutions to creating accessible healthy food
5,2,1 Almost None- 5 servings of fruit and vegetables; 2 hours of screen time; 1 hour of exercise; almost no sugary drinks

(B) What is Currently Working in Our Community These are actions and approaches that are currently in place in our community to make a difference on fruit and vegetable consumption.

(C) Evidence-Based Strategies These are actions and approaches that have been shown to make a difference on fruit and vegetable consumption.

Cook Smart, Eat Smart- individual level
Faithful Families Thriving Communities- individual and policy levels
Have a Plant (create a habit, eat fruits and vegetables first, cultivate enjoyment)- individual and organization levels

Process for Selecting Priority Strategies

Haywood County used a process planning tool referred to as the "Getting to Strategies: Process Plan" designed to move from health priorities to Community Health Improvement Plan strategies. This tool assisted in facilitation when discussing priorities and strategies with work groups. Seven questions were presented to identify: Our ideal vision of Haywood County; What in our community would require change to accomplish our vision; What are the most important measures to reflect positive change; Who plays a role in creating change; What past and current strategies work to make positive change; and What we propose to do this Community Health Improvement Plan cycle (questions below). Once all of our work groups, partners, and community members in attendance agreed on proposed strategies (keeping in mind feasibility, sustainability, level of impact in regard to current resources and capacity) the group voted for their top three substance use and mental health strategies.

Questions:
- What are the quality-of-life conditions we want for the people who live in our community?
- How can we measure these conditions?
- What would these conditions look like if we could see them?
- How are we doing on the most important of these measures?
- Who are the partners who have a role to play in doing better?
- What works to do better?
- What do we propose to do?

Data Holes

We are keeping an eye on fruit and vegetable consumption as a way of telling how we are doing as a community in addressing obesity and build a community where 'Haywood residents live well and live long by promoting physical activity, healthy eating, and quality healthcare.' We have also identified other data that is not currently available, but that we would like to develop to help us monitor progress on this result:

Proximity of restaurants to grocery stores (more current)
Access to and utilization of fast food restaurants (more current)

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