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Nutritional Environment Measures Survey

Master’s Student Assesses Food Environment at Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Eva Vobis, a master’s student at Maastricht University in The Netherlands, did a systematic assessment of the food environment on her campus for her thesis.  She adapted the NEMS tools for her project and named them UNEMS for University Nutrition Environment Measures Survey which encompasses four different tools (the cafeteria, the snack shop, the food vending machine and the beverage vending machine).  To learn more details of her project, please read her thesis.

Master Thesis, Eva Vobis

NEMS is funded with support from the National Institutes of Health, the United States Agricultural Department, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Georgia Cancer Coalition, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Center for Health Behavior Research at the University of Pennsylvania.

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