Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human NeedsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Food Gap: Poverty and Malnutrition in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human NeedsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Food Gap: Poverty and Malnutrition in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human NeedsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309101328
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The United States is viewed by the world as a country with plenty of food, yet not all households in America are food secure, meaning access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. A proportion of the population experiences food insecurity at some time in a given year because of food deprivation and lack of access to food due to economic resource constraints. Still, food insecurity in the United States is not of the same intensity as in some developing countries. Since 1995 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has annually published statistics on the extent of food insecurity and food insecurity with hunger in U.S. households. These estimates are based on a survey measure developed by the U.S. Food Security Measurement Project, an ongoing collaboration among federal agencies, academic researchers, and private organizations. USDA requested the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies to convene a panel of experts to undertake a two-year study in two phases to review at this 10-year mark the concepts and methodology for measuring food insecurity and hunger and the uses of the measure. In Phase 2 of the study the panel was to consider in more depth the issues raised in Phase 1 relating to the concepts and methods used to measure food security and make recommendations as appropriate. The Committee on National Statistics appointed a panel of 10 experts to examine the above issues. In order to provide timely guidance to USDA, the panel issued an interim Phase 1 report, Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger: Phase 1 Report. That report presented the panel's preliminary assessments of the food security concepts and definitions; the appropriateness of identifying hunger as a severe range of food insecurity in such a survey-based measurement method; questions for measuring these concepts; and the appropriateness of a household survey for regularly monitoring food security in the U.S. population. It provided interim guidance for the continued production of the food security estimates. This final report primarily focuses on the Phase 2 charge. The major findings and conclusions based on the panel's review and deliberations are summarized.
Hunger and Malnutrition in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and PovertyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Considers S. Res. 281, to establish the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, to study hunger and related health problems in the U.S.
Hunger and Malnutrition in U.S.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and PovertyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunger
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Considers S. Res. 281, to establish the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, to study hunger and related health problems in the U.S.
Hunger and Malnutrition in the United State
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Hunger and Malnutrition in America
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and PovertyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Investigates reasons for continued existence of hunger and malnutrition in the U.S.
Food and Poverty
Author: Leslie HossfeldPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826504132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we see an increase in obesity that results from lack of access to healthy foods. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food.
Research Opportunities Concerning the Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309292875
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Section 141 of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 20101 provides funding for a research program on the causes and consequences of childhood hunger and food insecurity, and the characteristics of households with childhood hunger and food insecurity, with a particular focus on efforts to improve the knowledge base regarding contributing factors, geographic distribution, programmatic effectiveness, public health and medical costs, and consequences for child development, well-being, and educational attainment. The Economic Research Service and Food and Nutrition Service of the US Department of Agriculture conducted two outreach efforts to obtain input from the research community and other stakeholders to help focus on areas and methods with the greatest research potential. First, Food and Nutrition Service sought written comments to selected questions through publication of a Federal Register Notice. The second option was to convene a workshop under the auspices of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council and the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine. Research Opportunities Concerning the Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger is the summary of that workshop, convened in Fall 2012 to examine research gaps and opportunities to advance understanding of the causes and consequences of child hunger in the United States. This report reviews the adequacy of current knowledge, identifies substantial research gaps, and considers data availability of economic, health, social, cultural, demographic, and other factors that contribute to childhood hunger or food insecurity. It also considers the geographic distribution of childhood hunger and food insecurity; the extent to which existing federal assistance programs reduce childhood hunger and food insecurity; childhood hunger and food insecurity persistence, and the extent to which it is due to gaps in program coverage; and the inability of potential participants to access programs, or the insufficiency of program benefits or services. Research Opportunities Concerning the Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger will be a resource to inform discussions about the public health and medical costs of childhood hunger and food insecurity through its focus on determinants of child food insecurity and hunger, individual, community, and policy responses to hunger, impacts of child food insecurity and hunger, and measurement and surveillance issues.
Measuring Food Security in the United States
Author: Mark NordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food supply
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description