Household Food Insecurity and Hunger Among Families Using Food Banks
| Autor: | Valerie Tarasuk, George H. Beaton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Canada medicine.medical_specialty Hunger Vulnerability Nutritional Status Context (language use) Article Food Supply Food Assistance Programs Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Socioeconomics Poverty Socioeconomic status Analysis of Variance Chi-Square Distribution Public health digestive oral and skin physiology Food Services Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Middle Aged Chronic poverty Metropolitan area Female Business Energy Intake |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Public Health. 90:109-113 |
| ISSN: | 1920-7476 0008-4263 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf03404112 |
| Popis: | Over the past two decades, the demand for charitable food assistance has steadily grown, and a massive ad hoc system of food banks has become established in Canada. To assess the food insecurity and nutritional vulnerability of one subgroup of food bank users, interviews were conducted with a sample of 153 women in families using emergency food relief programs in Metropolitan Toronto. Ninety percent reported household incomes which were less than two thirds of the 'poverty line', and 94% reported some degree of food insecurity over the previous 12 months. Seventy percent reported some level of absolute food deprivation, despite using food banks. The findings highlight the limited capacity of ad hoc, charitable food assistance programs to respond to problems of household food insecurity which arise in the context of severe and chronic poverty. |
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