Food Insecurity Among Low-Income Hispanics in Hartford, Connecticut: Implications for Public Health Policy
| Autor: | Ann M. Ferris, David Himmelgreen, Yu-Kuei Peng, Merrill Singer, Anir González, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Sofia Segura-Millan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Gerontology
education.field_of_study medicine.medical_specialty Food security Poverty Public health digestive oral and skin physiology Population General Social Sciences Social issues medicine.disease Malnutrition Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Scale (social sciences) Environmental health medicine education Psychology Health policy |
| Zdroj: | Human Organization. 59:334-342 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3525 0018-7259 |
| DOI: | 10.17730/humo.59.3.76557m317748l414 |
| Popis: | During the last two decades hunger has reemerged as an important social issue in the United States. As a result, efforts were initiated to adequately define hunger and food insecurity (i.e., limited or uncertain access to nutritionally adequate and safe foods) and to develop appropriate indicators for their measurement. The purpose of this study is to examine hunger and food insecurity among low-income Hispanic families with children in Hartford, Connecticut, using the Radimer/Cornell Scale. Additionally, the association of specified sociodemographic and food-assistance variables with hunger and food insecurity in this population are examined. Findings are compared to local and national data and implications for public health nutrition policy are discussed. More than 41 percent of households were food insecure, 25.4 percent of the adult participants were food insecure, and 20.9 percent of the study children (1-6 years) suffered from periodic hunger. These data corroborate an earlier study conducted in Har... |
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