When working is not enough: food insecurity in the Canadian labour force DOI Open Access
Lynn McIntyre,

Aaron C. Bartoo,

JC Herbert Emery

et al.

Public Health Nutrition, Journal Year: 2012, Volume and Issue: 17(1), P. 49 - 57

Published: Sept. 10, 2012

Food insecurity, lack of access to food due financial constraints, is highly associated with poor health outcomes. Households dependent on social assistance are at increased risk experiencing but insecurity has also been reported in households reporting their main source income from employment/wages (working households). The objective the present study was examine correlates among reliant employment income.Working were studied through analysis Canadian Community Health Survey, 2007-2008, employing descriptive statistics and logistic regression. measured using Household Security Survey Module; all provinces participated.Canada.Canadian where derived labour force participation. Social recipients excluded.For period 4% working insecurity. primary earners less education lower incomes significantly more likely experience insecurity; these differences accentuated across some industry sectors. Residence Quebec protective. Working include multiples jobs higher job stress. Visible minority workers comparable levels experienced rates than European-origin workers.Reliance does not eliminate for a significant proportion households, disproportionately so racialized workers. Increases work stress may increase susceptibility outcomes residing

Language: Английский

Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease DOI Creative Commons
Barbara Laraia

Advances in Nutrition, Journal Year: 2013, Volume and Issue: 4(2), P. 203 - 212

Published: March 1, 2013

Language: Английский

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476

Chronic Physical and Mental Health Conditions among Adults May Increase Vulnerability to Household Food Insecurity DOI Creative Commons
Valerie Tarasuk, Andrew Mitchell, Lindsay McLaren

et al.

Journal of Nutrition, Journal Year: 2013, Volume and Issue: 143(11), P. 1785 - 1793

Published: Aug. 29, 2013

Language: Английский

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269

The Intersection between Food Insecurity and Diabetes: A Review DOI Creative Commons
Enza Gucciardi, Mandana Vahabi,

Nicole Norris

et al.

Current Nutrition Reports, Journal Year: 2014, Volume and Issue: 3(4), P. 324 - 332

Published: Oct. 1, 2014

Access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food not only affects the health of people who experience insecurity, but also their ability manage conditions, such as diabetes. When find it difficult access sufficient food, tailoring selection a diabetes regimen is even more difficult. Food insecurity in North America consistently prevalent among households with person living diabetes, similarly, food-insecure households. Diabetes management can be stressful due many required responsibilities; when compounded becomes an greater challenge. As result, diabetics themselves caught between competing priorities procuring prescribed medications supplies for managing other expenses, potentially worsening condition overall health. Healthcare providers should aware informed about significant role that security play prevention

Language: Английский

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240

The Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Depression, Diabetes Distress and Medication Adherence Among Low-Income Patients with Poorly-Controlled Diabetes DOI Open Access

Julie Silverman,

JAMES KRIEGER,

Meghan Kiefer

et al.

Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal Year: 2015, Volume and Issue: 30(10), P. 1476 - 1480

Published: April 27, 2015

Language: Английский

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186

Cardiometabolic Risk in Canada: A Detailed Analysis and Position Paper by the Cardiometabolic Risk Working Group DOI
Lawrence A. Leiter, David Fitchett,

Richard E. Gilbert

et al.

Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Journal Year: 2011, Volume and Issue: 27(2), P. e1 - e33

Published: March 1, 2011

Language: Английский

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178

Feeding a Family in a Recession: Food Insecurity Among Minnesota Parents DOI
Meg Bruening, Richard F. MacLehose, Katie A. Loth

et al.

American Journal of Public Health, Journal Year: 2012, Volume and Issue: 102(3), P. 520 - 526

Published: Jan. 19, 2012

We assessed current levels of food insecurity among a large, diverse sample parents and examined associations between parental weight status, eating patterns, the home environment.Project F-EAT (Families Eating Activity Among Teens) environments adolescents. Parents caregivers (n = 2095) living with adolescents from Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota school districts completed mailed surveys during 12-month period in 2009-2010. performed our assessments using multivariate regressions.Almost 39% experienced household insecurity, whereas 13% very low security. Food was significantly associated poorer nutrition-related variables such as higher rates overweight obesity, less healthy foods served at meals, binge eating. Food-insecure were 2 to 4 times more likely report barriers accessing fruits vegetables.Food highly prevalent. Environmental interventions are needed protect vulnerable families against improve access affordable, foods.

Language: Английский

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177

Food Insecurity, Food “Deserts,” and Glycemic Control in Patients With Diabetes: A Longitudinal Analysis DOI Open Access
Seth A. Berkowitz, Andrew J. Karter, Giselle Corbie‐Smith

et al.

Diabetes Care, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 41(6), P. 1188 - 1195

Published: March 19, 2018

OBJECTIVE Both food insecurity (limited access owing to cost) and living in areas with low physical nutritious foods are public health concerns, but their relative contribution diabetes management is poorly understood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a prospective cohort study. A random sample of patients primary care network completed assessment 2013. Low at the census tract level defined as no supermarket within 1 mile urban 10 miles rural areas. HbA1c measurements were obtained from electronic records through November 2016. The relationship among insecurity, access, glycemic control (as by HbA1c) analyzed using hierarchical linear mixed models. RESULTS Three hundred ninety-one participants followed for mean 37 months. Twenty percent respondents reported 31% resided an area access. In adjusted models, associated higher (difference 0.6% [6.6 mmol/mol], 95% CI 0.4–0.8 [4.4–8.7], P < 0.0001), which did not improve over time (P = 0.50). Living difference 0.2% [2.2 −0.2 0.5 [−2.2 5.6], 0.33) or change 0.07). CONCLUSIONS Food HbA1c, not. screening interventions may help vulnerable patients.

Language: Английский

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159

Relationships Between Housing and Food Insecurity, Frequent Mental Distress, and Insufficient Sleep Among Adults in 12 US States, 2009 DOI Creative Commons
Yong Liu,

Rashid Njai,

Kurt J. Greenlund

et al.

Preventing Chronic Disease, Journal Year: 2014, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: March 6, 2014

Housing insecurity and food may be psychological stressors associated with insufficient sleep. Frequent mental distress mediate the relationships between these variables. The objective of this study was to examine housing insecurity, frequent distress,

Language: Английский

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154

Socio-economic characteristics, living conditions and diet quality are associated with food insecurity in France DOI Open Access
Aurélie Bocquier, Florent Vieux, Sandrine Lioret

et al.

Public Health Nutrition, Journal Year: 2015, Volume and Issue: 18(16), P. 2952 - 2961

Published: Jan. 7, 2015

To assess the prevalence of household food insecurity (FI) in France and to describe its associations with socio-economic factors, health behaviours, diet quality cost (estimated using mean prices).Cross-sectional nationally representative survey. FI was assessed an adapted version US Department Agriculture's Food Insufficiency Indicator; dietary intake a 7 d open-ended record; individual demographic, behavioural variables were self-administered questionnaires interviews. Individuals experiencing compared food-secure individuals, latter being divided into four categories according quartiles their income per consumption unit (FS1 FS4). Differences among analysed χ² tests, ANOVA tests for trend.Individual National Dietary Survey (INCA2), 2006-2007.Adults aged 18-79 years (n 2624).Individuals represented 12·2% population. They on average younger, more frequently women single parents children those other categories. Their higher than that FS1 category, but they reported poorer material housing conditions. The smoking daily time spent watching television also category. No significant difference found energy intake, intakes fruits, vegetables fish lower, slightly significantly Daily lower category.France is not spared by FI. should be routinely monitored at national level research promoted identify effective strategies reduce nutrition inequalities France.

Language: Английский

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Coping and the biosocial consequences of food insecurity in the 21st century DOI Open Access
Craig Hadley,

Deborah L. Crooks

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Journal Year: 2012, Volume and Issue: 149(S55), P. 72 - 94

Published: Jan. 1, 2012

Abstract Food security occurs when all members of a household have reliable access to food in sufficient quantity and quality maintain an active healthy lifestyle. Given the important biological social value for humans, sufficiency been traditional topics study among anthropologists. The focus on insecurity, however, has emerged within past two decades recent global events, including crisis 2007/2008, led renewed interests topic insecurity wellbeing. Here, we review current novel threats security, thinking measurement definitions, then outline model that links coping strategies health outcomes. We suggest are typically context‐specific can be nonfood based. further may impact quite broadly, not just through nutritional pathways. available data relationship between status, chronic diseases, infectious mental health. Our highlights far reaching consequences human wellbeing but also considerable variability its effect our limited empirical knowledge pathways which impacts conclude by offering thoughts how anthropologists might contribute growing understanding Am J Phys Anthropol, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Language: Английский

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139