Increasing Access to Healthy Food: Policy Options for Local Governments in Kansas
January 2015
By: Public Health Law Center
https://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/sites/default/files/resources/Policy%20Options_Access%20to%20Healthy%20Food%201%202015.pdf
Report a broken linkBuilt Environment and Health
This guide defines the role local governments have in increasing healthy food access in Kansas and identifies several policy strategies. These include resolutions, land use planning, zoning, property and natural resource management, licensing and use agreements, government bids, contracts, and wellness policies, unified school district policies, and other policy options. It includes examples of these policy strategies that have been used across the U.S.