In an unhealthy food system, what role should SNAP play?

Hilary Kessler Seligman; Sanjay Basu

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002662

In an unhealthy food system, what role should SNAP play?

PLoS Med. 2018 Oct 2;15(10):e1002662. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002662. eCollection 2018 Oct.

Authors

Hilary Kessler Seligman¹, Sanjay Basu²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
² Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America.

Abstract

In a Perspective, Hilary Seligman and Sanjay Basu discuss future scenarios of food assistance programs to improve population health in a changing political environment.

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MeSH terms

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Food Assistance*
Food Supply
Motivation
Poverty

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