Is food insecurity the issue, or is it discrimination?Lawrie, SelenaPhillips, Jennifer M.British Columbia Medical Journal
You have a responsibility to screen families for food insecurity, intervene to help them, and advocate on behalf of those experiencing or at risk of food insecurity, according to Kofi Essel, MD, MPH, a pediatrician at Children's National Hospital in Washington. More than one in four adults a...
Food insecurity among university students in Victoria: A pilot study Aims Susceptibility to food insecurity can vary over a life course; however, a potential period of particular vulnerability is while studying at a tertiary... DA Micevski,LE Thornton,S Brockington - 《Nutrition & Dietetics》 被...
Understanding the empirical evidence supporting compensatory consumption theory may improve forecasts, which feed into early warning systems for food insecurity. And it also avoids unreasonable food policies. Originality/value This research is a f...
Food security is at stake for the decades to come and most of the international decision makers are becoming aware of it, as illustrated by a series of conferences and summits which include: the G20 summit on agriculture in Paris (June 2011) and the Earth Summit which took place in Rio ...
food insecurity food desert bottom of the pyramid case poverty collective poverty See all related content view archival footage of the impoverished American population in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929“The unemployed, the soup kitchens, the grinding poverty, and the despair”—the...
For example, Lance Armstrong, a Tour de France cycling champion, became a national hero not merely because he won the race but because he overcame a life-threatening illness, against all odds, to do so. Of course, widespread notoriety is not a requisite for heroic status. Countless ...
As just one example from the research, tenants under 40 years of age, and from across the political spectrum, were most impacted by the insecurity narrative. And with the housing affordability crisis in full swing across Europe this tenant response is understandable. Another example found t...
Organizational Downsizing and Depressive Symptoms in the European Recession: The Experience of Workers in France, Hungary, Sweden and the United Kingdom Background Organizational downsizing has become highly common during the global recession of the late 2000s with severe repercussions on employment. We...
Energy poverty occurs when households cannot afford or access the levels of energy necessary to meet theirdaily needs, live decent lives, and maintain healthy indoor temperatures all year round. More Canadians potentially suffer fromenergy povertythan from food insecurity. ...