Food as medicine: How Sprink is leading efforts to make hospital food healthier to improve outcomes
Health care workers experience high rates of ill health, which have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic.1 This results in more staff sick days than in any other field, placing strain on the workforce and leading to high levels of burnout, which negatively affects patient care.2Ā Additionally, in the UK health care system, 60% of nurses and […]
How can health care organisations help to address food insecurity?
By Matthew Salt & Edward Maile. Food insecurity is a major global health and nutrition challenge[i], and health care organisations have a crucial role in tackling its root causes to improve health and care outcomes in their local areas. It is defined as a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in […]
What is the definition of a Healthy Food Environment in health care systems?
Announcing the first research priority for the Global Centre for Healthy Food Environments.