This presentation was recorded during the live meeting titled "Kentucky Symposium for Maternal and Infant Outcomes" on September 12, 2024. If you attended that event and claimed credit you should not claim credit for this module.

Faculty

Needs Statement

The USDA defines food insecurity as a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life. This can be a temporary situation for a family or can last a long time. Food insecurity is one way we measure how many people can't afford food.

According to recent research completed here at UK, individuals within the Appalachian region report traveling on average 10 miles one way to the closest grocery store.

Target Audience

This course targets physicians, midwives, advanced nurse practitioners, nurses, community health workers, peer support specialists, social workers, doulas, emergency medical technicians, pharmacists, public health officials, and dentists.

Objectives

Upon competition of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the causes and consequences of food insecurity and its direct impact on health outcomes.
2. Define Food is Medicine and provide examples of FIM programs.
3. Identify ongoing Food is Medicine initiatives in Kentucky and their potential impact on gestational diabetes based on research findings.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

CME
This enduring material is designated for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IPE Competencies

• Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice
• Roles/ Responsibilities
• Interprofessional Communication
• Teams and Teamwork

CPHCE
University of Kentucky College of Public Health certifies that this educational activity was designated for 0.75 hours of Public Health Continuing Education (CPHCE) credit. This course is approved for continuing education by the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. ()

ASWB ACE
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UK HealthCare CECentral is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. UK HealthCare CECentral maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 0.75 clinical continuing education credits.

CNE
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 0.75 nursing contact hours.

CCHW
This training is approved by the Office of Community Health Workers Program to provide 0.75 continuing education units for Certified Community Health Workers.

Faculty Disclosure

All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

None of the planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

Content review confirmed that the content was developed in a fair, balanced manner free from commercial bias. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Acknowledgement

In collaboration with UK Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.