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Kaiser Permanente's Farmers' Market Program:

Description, Impact, and Lessons Learned

DeAnn Crompa,*, Allen Cheadlea, Loel Solomonb, Preston Maringc, Elisa Wongb, Kathleen M. Reedd

http://dx.doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2012.022.010, pp. 29–36


 

 

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Abstract

Farmers' markets are an innovative strategy to potentially increase healthy nutrition environments. Kaiser Permanente (KP), the largest private, nonprofit healthcare system in the country, has been hosting farmers' markets on its medical campuses since 2003 and now has markets in nearly 40 KP locations in four states: California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Maryland. This paper describes the KP farmers' market program and summarizes the results of a patron survey conducted in 2010 among 2,435 market patrons. The majority of patrons are KP physicians and staff, and a quarter of patrons are KP members and community residents. The markets appear to have an impact on what people are eating: 74% of all patrons reported eating more fruits and vegetables as a result of coming to the market. The KP experience may be generalizable to other healthcare organizations and to other large employers.

 

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farmers' markets, healthy food access, hospitals, obesity prevention

 

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a Center for Community Health and Evaluation, Group Health Research Institute, 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101 USA

b Kaiser Permanente, One Kaiser Plaza, 21st Floor (Bayside), Oakland, CA 94612 USA

c Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Oakland, 280 West MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94611 USA

d Kaiser Permanente, 1800 Harrison Street, 18th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612 USA

 

Note: In the interest of full disclosure, the authors note that they did not receive additional compensation for their contributions to this evaluation. The Center for Community Health and Evaluation provides evaluation services to Kaiser Permanente for various programs.
 

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