Food security and health status in the United States

Autor:	W. Noel Blisard, James R. Blaylock
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Tobacco use Food security Environmental health digestive oral and skin physiology Food choice medicine Economics Production (economics) medicine.disease Socioeconomics Obesity
Zdroj:	Applied Economics. 27:961-966
ISSN:	1466-4283 0003-6846
Popis:	Food security is defined as access by all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. This paper explores the relationships between food security and women's self-evaluated health status. A theoretical model is developed which suggests that our primary interests can be served by estimating health and food security production functions. We find that food security has a significant influence on a woman's self-evaluated health status. However, the exact manifestations are difficult to quantify; they may be psychological or physiolgical. The most food-insecure women tend to be poor and less educated. Tobacco use, lack of physical exercise and obesity also weigh heavily good health status.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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