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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Food Insecure"”.
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Understanding the nutritional challenges of food insecure cancer survivors
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Food Insecure COPD Patients and Healthcare Utilization: A Retrospective Study
… and social needs, but the impact of their unmet food needs is not well understood and warrants further investigation. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationships between COPD food insecure patients and healthcare utilization in San Diego County.</p> …
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Reaching the Chronic Poor and Food Insecure after a Disaster: The Case of Niger
… coping strategy employed after these shocks is food aid and receiving assistance from other households.
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Are Community Food Assistance Programs Meeting the Needs Of Food-Insecure Households in Pittsburgh's North Side Neighborhoods?
… with three householders and three community food program managers were conducted to explore if food assistance programs meet the needs of residents in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhoods. Findings show that insufficient income is the main factor contributing to household food insecurity. …
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Food security and poverty reduction programmes: the experience of female headed households in a Cape Town community
… female headed households are most vulnerable to food insecurity. In order to reduce the risk and abate the experience of household food insecurity, civil society (NGO) and government have established numerous poverty reduction programmes and initiatives. However, in spite of ongoing efforts, the …
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Analysing food access to improve food security in South Africa.
This study focuses on the level of food access in South Africa in order to improve food security in the country. South Africa, having been affected by the pandemic, left a significant number of people suffering from hunger as they were unable to access food, due to reductions of income. This …
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A Snowball Effect: a Pandemic’s Impacts on Household Food Insecurity in the United States
… to the US economy and has created unparalleled food insufficiency and economic hardships. Before the pandemic, household food insufficiency existed but downplayed in the political arena. In 2019, 10.5 percent of households in the US lived in extreme poverty and were food insecure, the lowest …
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The Perception of the Food Pantry Customer Receiving Diabetes-Friendly Food Boxes
Food insecurity is on the rise in the United States, and food insecure individuals are more likely to have diabetes than those who are food secure. Diabetes self-management may be impaired as a result of food insecurity, and there are limited studies that examine the effect food distributed by food …
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Three Essays on Food Insecurity and Economics
… is composed of three manuscripts focusing on food insecurity and food economics in the United States. The first manuscript titled ``Differences in Food Insecurity Across the Rural/Urban Spectrum - The Role of Trade Flows" uses county food trade data to examine its correlation with food …
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Food Insecurity and Produce Behaviors of Adults with Children in Rural, Appalachian Mississippi
Adults living in food insecure households consume fewer fruits and vegetables than adults living in food secure households (Hanson & Connor, 2014). The purpose of this study was to examine differences in fruit and vegetable behaviors (intakes; perceptions) of parents of elementary school children …
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Food Insecurity And Physical And Mental Health Of Elementary School Children In A Rural, Appalachian Mississippi Community
Household food insecurity has been associated with poor physical health and behavioral and psychological problems in children. This study examined differences in parent/caregiver-perceived child health and parent/caregiver-reported behavioral and psychological problems by food security status of …
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The association of food insecurity and disordered eating behaviors among youth and young adults with diabetes: the SEARCH For Diabetes in Youth Study.
… is to examine the relationship between household food insecurity (HFS; i.e., access to nutritionally adequate and safe food) and disordered eating behaviors (i.e., restriction, bingeing, insulin manipulation, etc.) among a sample of youth and young adults with youth-onset type 1 (T1D) or type 2 …
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Food Insecurity And Child And Parent/Caretaker Overweight/Obesity In A Rural, Appalachian Mississippi Community
… child overweight/obesity by food security status in a rural, Appalachian, Mississippi community, as well as the relationship of parent/caretaker BMI and parent/caretaker-reported child overweight/obesity to food security status. A cross-sectional survey of elementary school …
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Food Insecurity and Health of International Students
… students may be at risk for suffering from food insecurity and poor health. The purposes of this study were to: 1) determine if the household adult food security status (HAFSS) differs between undergraduate and graduate international students (INSTUD) attending the University of Mississippi …
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Prevalence and Determinants of Chronic Diseases Among Food Pantry Users in Washoe County
… of chronic disease has been associated with food insecurity, as individuals in these populations do not have access to healthcare and nutritionally safe foods due to financial constraints. The inception of food assistance programs in the early 1990's was to relieve food-insecure individuals …
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Food Security, Diet Quality and Health of Food Pantry Participants in the North End of Hartford
<p> Food insecurity is an increasingly urgent problem in the United States. Food security is defined as having “consistent access to enough food for active healthy living.” Those who are food insecure typically lack access to healthy food, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, facing increased …
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Food security in the free state province: Meaning making as democratic agency
… the Free State Province, South Africa, who face food insecurity within abundance, and their critical consciousness and agency as they struggle to survive in their democracy. Poverty is a rawness...Poverty is struggle... Poverty is shame...these were some of the themes running through people's …
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Food innsecurity and quality of life in informal settlements of Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia
… but to live in informal settlements. Urban food insecurity is often overlooked since at aggregate level, economic and social conditions in urban areas are much better than those in rural areas. The urban poor often live in neighborhoods with poor sanitation, high environmental pollution and …
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The Stigmatization of Hunger: The Impact of Social Stigma on Arkansas Youths’ Food Security
<p>In Arkansas, 26.3% of children are food insecure, meaning they do not have enough or lack the ability to obtain enough food for adequate nutrition (Miller 2019). In recent years, a new phenomenon has been taking place called lunch shaming where children are sometimes forced to wear signs or …
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Economic shocks, poverty and household food insecurity in urban Zambia: an ethnographic account of Chingola
Research on poverty and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa has tended to focus on rural households and urban areas known to have concentrations of low-income households. However, consequences and effects of the recent global economic crisis such as retrenchment coupled with increasing food and …
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