Food Security and Child Malnutrition (eBook, ePUB)

The Impact on Health, Growth, and Well-Being
Redaktion: Hassan, Areej

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Food security and child malnutrition are at the forefront of our attention, both nationally and internationally. The chapters contained in this compendium include a range of methodologies-literature review, cross-sectional study, longitudinal study, case-control, and even a focus group!-all of which examine this urgent issue, revealing new perspectives and facets of information. The international roster of contributors present a nuanced look at food security and child malnutrition with research into food security measures in many nations around the world. The Children's HealthWatch has been a leader in the work being done in this area, and some of their work is included here. The book is broken into several parts, coveringdefining food securityfood security, nutrition, and growth and developmentfood security and mental and physical healthfood security and child obesityconclusion, with an information study from The Children's Healthwatch on household hardships, public programs, and their associations with the health and development of very young childrenThe range of topics and information presented here will be valuable for those involved with food security advocacy, policymakers, researchers, social service professionals working children and families, and others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315341538
• Artikelnr.: 47388993

Autorenporträt

Areej Hassan, MD, MPH, is an attending in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Brown University before her fellowship at BCH. In addition to primary care, Dr.Hassan focuses her clinical interests on reproductive endocrinology and global health. She also maintains an active role in medical education and has particular interest in building and developing innovative teaching tools through open educational resources. She currently teaches, consults, and is involved in pediatric and adolescent curricula development at multiple sites abroad in Central America and Southeast Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

The Food Security Continuum: A Novel Tool for Understanding Food Insecurity
as a Range of Experiences. Household Food (In)Security and Nutritional
Status of Urban Poor Children Aged 6 to 23 Months in Kenya. Household Food
Access and Child Malnutrition: Results from the Eight-Country MAL-ED Study.
Food Insecurity and Linear Growth of Adolescents in Jimma Zone, Southwest
Ethiopia. Factors Associated with Stunting Among Children According to the
Level of Food Insecurity in the Household: A Cross-Sectional Study in a
Rural Community of Southeastern Kenya. Beyond Nutrition: Hunger and Its
Impact on the Health of Young Canadians. Food Insecurity and Children's
Mental Health: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study. Household Food Insecurity
and Childhood Overweight in Jamaica and Québec: A Gender-Based Analysis.
Community Perspectives on Food Insecurity and Obesity: Focus Groups with
Caregivers of Métis and Off-Reserve First Nations Children. Household
Hardships, Public Programs, and Their Associations with the Health and
Development of Very Young Children: Insights from Children's HealthWatch.