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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Nutr.
Sec. Food Policy and Economics
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1442070
This article is part of the Research Topic Optimizing Hydration: Advances in Understanding, Assessment, and Promotion View all 10 articles

Exploring barriers and facilitators to water availability and accessibility, and potential strategies for improving water accessibility and children's intake in family childcare homes: A qualitative study

Provisionally accepted
Kim M. Gans Kim M. Gans 1,2*Violeta Chacon Violeta Chacon 1,2Sarah Wen Warykas Sarah Wen Warykas 1Vanessa Esquivel Vanessa Esquivel 1Madeline Baird Madeline Baird 1Suge Zhang Suge Zhang 1Peter McCauley Peter McCauley 1Michelle Miller Michelle Miller 1Nathaniel Stekler Nathaniel Stekler 1Viviana Zambrano Rodriguez Viviana Zambrano Rodriguez 1Alison Tovar Alison Tovar 3,4Patricia Markham Risica Patricia Markham Risica 3,4
  • 1 University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States
  • 2 Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
  • 3 School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • 4 Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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    I am submitting to the special issue on Optimizing Hydration: Advances in Understanding, Assessment, and Promotion. This paper focuses on barriers and facilitators of water availability and access in family child care homes. This fits into the following areas that you listed: Causes of water deficit, Vulnerable populations and those with limited water access, and Public health, research, policy, and practice approaches to promoting hydration. I selected the Food Policy journal, but this paper could also fit into Clinical Nutrition. Feel free to put it where it best fits. Thanks.

    Keywords: Alison Tovar: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing -review & editing. Kim M. Gans: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources

    Received: 01 Jun 2024; Accepted: 23 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Gans, Chacon, Warykas, Esquivel, Baird, Zhang, McCauley, Miller, Stekler, Rodriguez, Tovar and Risica. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Kim M. Gans, University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States

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