Glossary
Safe routes to schoolA program to make walking and bicycling to school safer and more accessible for children, including those with disabilities, and to increase the number of children who choose to walk and bicycle. |
SectorsAreas of the economy in which businesses share the same or a related product or service. |
Sedentary behaviorToo much sitting or lying down at work, home, in social settings and during leisure time. |
SettingSetting is the type of site where the intervention takes place; interventions may be implemented in more than one setting. The Community setting includes interventions designed to help children and families and/or interventions implemented in neighborhoods, parks, faith-based organizations, or other community locations. This also includes recreation and emergency food provision settings. |
SettingsTypes of sites, for example schools, work sites, food stores, and parks. |
Shared-use street |
SitesThe physical locations or places where SNAP-Ed activities occur. |
SNAP-Ed agenciesSNAP-Ed agencies include state agencies that administer SNAP, Implementing Agencies (e.g., Land-grant universities, other universities, public health departments, Indian Tribal Organizations, and nonprofit organizations), and their sub-contractors. |
SNAP-Ed Connection |
SNAP-Ed eligible persons |
SNAP-Ed Library |
Social marketing |
Social marketing campaigns |
Social normsExpectations held by social groups that dictate appropriate behavior and are thought of as rules or standards that guide behavior. |
Solid fatsFats that are solid at room temperature, like beef fat, butter, and shortening. Solid fats mainly come from animal foods and can also be made from vegetable oils through a process called hydrogenation. |
Specific messageA communication with some identifiable aspect (e.g., logo, jingle, character) that the respondent could not name unless he or she had been exposed to the communication. |
State agency |
Structured physical activity
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Sugar-sweetened beverages |
SupportsChanges in written policies, organizational systems, and the observable (physical or “built”) or communications environments that make healthy choices easier and more desirable. |
Surveillance |
SustainabilityThe continued use of intervention components and activities for the continued achievement of desirable intervention and population outcomes. |
Sustainability planA written document that describes the priorities and action steps that will be taken to ensure the long-term sustainability of a SNAP-Ed intervention or initiative. |
SystemsA group of related parts that move or work together within a whole organization or a network of organizations. |
Systems changesUnwritten, ongoing, organizational decisions or changes that result in new activities or new ways of conducting business that reach large proportions of people the organization or network of organizations serve. |