food insecurity in African and Southeast Asian countriesThis article offers a measure of food insecurity. Its purpose is to capture the idea that the concept of food insecurity is inherently forward-looking. We apply our measure to construct a refinement of the measures of undernourishment used by...
Not long ago, food insecurity in the United States was thought of mainly in terms of "food deserts," which were based largely on a measure of a person's geographical distance from places that sold affordable, healthy food. The US Department of Agriculture came out with a detailedfood desert...
Keep in mind that using income thresholds is just one way that countries measure poverty. How To Reduce Poverty The United Nations and the World Bank are major advocates of reducing world poverty. The World Bank has an ambitious target of reducing poverty to less than 3% of the global populat...
These include (1) a shift from a focus on physical vulnerability to including social vulnerability, (2) changes in common indicators used to measure vulnerability, and (3) most recently, a change from static toward dynamic vulnerability. Later in discussion, we provide a brief discussion of the...
Worksite environment physical activity and healthy food choices: measurement of the worksite food and physical activity environment at four metropolitan bu... p pBackground/p pThe present research describes a measure of the worksite environment for food, physical activity and weight management. The...
Choosing those goals and designing a system to measure progress isn't easy, though. With the FAO, WRI has developed a guide,the Road to Restoration, that helps people understand the current state of the landscape, identify what they want to achieve (see below), choose the indicators that th...
The first thing to do is measure. Peter, other leading health-optimizers and I recommend the Oura ring. Use the code “sergef” to get $100 off their new version; I do not earn a referral fee from this (they kindly offered, I declined). The reason we prefer this particular device is...
Here are some common signs that your relationship with food may be disordered, and suggestions to help you get back to theintuitionyou were born with: You count, track, or measure everything. Many of my clients are obsessed with portion control. They worry that if they don’t me...
SAP, another EY Alliance member, has also joined EY in contributing to citizen science through Zooniverse. “SAP saw the opportunity to join the global EY organization and Zooniverse as a win-win. We are giving SAP employees a chance to contribute to something they care about w...
it can be difficult to measure specific metrics of a program’s success from a traditional health perspective. On the business side, nutrition benefits are rarely evaluated against traditional business goals, such as health-plan quality, cost of care, and member retention. W...