USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) monitors the food security status of households in the United States through an annual nationwide survey. Food-insecure households are defined as those that had difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all of their members because of...
Survey findings, confirming widespread malnutrition, led to the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health and increased funding of related... C Sr.,F Gerald - 《Journal of Nutrition》 被引量: 4发表: 2009年 加载更多
This study uses Rasch analysis, which underlies the current food insecurity classification approach used by the Department of Agriculture, to investigate the Adult Food Security Survey Module's psychometric properties. A sample of 511 students from a public university in the South was used. Findings ...
The government has outlawed the use of the word hunger in annual USDA food security surveys. Spokesman Keith Williams noted that the terminology change in the survey enabled USDA to increase the funding for people covered by the term food insecurity to $60 billion. The government's lag in ...
% of U.S. households, or about 23 million households, sometimes or often didn't have enough to eat in the prior week, according to a Census household survey from March 3 to March 15. Before the pandemic, about 8% of households reported they sometimes or often didn't have enough food....
School is out, and many parents could be facing food insecurity during the summer months. School administrators say federal funding and district feeding programs could help fill the gaps. Texarkana residents encouraged to take internet survey
A novel approach to assessing food insecurity for small geographic areas using household living budgets The USDA Economic Research Service has monitored food insecurity at national and state levels since 1995 using the Current Population Survey Food Security ... C Montalvo,V Lancaster,JJ Salvo,... ...
Household Food Insecurity Is Associated with Less Physical Activity among Children and Adults in the U.S. Population Background: Household food insecurity and physical activity are each important public-health concerns in the United States, but the relation between them h... Quyen,G.,To,... -...
More than half of food banks are reporting demand either increasing or demand holding steady in July, compared to the previous month, according to the group’s most recent survey of its members. Widespread coverage of food insecurity and of the increased usage of food pantries destigmatized the...