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Definitions of Food Security
Areej Hassan
- pp 25-30
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The article was published on 2017-01-06. It has received 187 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food security.read more
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Call to Action: Rural Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.
Robert A. Harrington,Robert M. Califf,Appathurai Balamurugan,Nancy J. Brown,Regina M. Benjamin,Wendy E. Braund,Janie Hipp,Madeleine Konig,Eduardo Sanchez,Karen E. Joynt Maddox +9 more
TL;DR: This presidential advisory serves as a call to action for the American Heart Association and other stakeholders to make rural populations a priority in programming, research, and policy and proposes a set of solutions spanning health system innovation, policy, and research aimed at improving rural health.
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Prevalence and correlates of food insecurity among U.S. college students: a multi-institutional study
Aseel El Zein,Karla P. Shelnutt,Sarah E. Colby,Melissa J. Vilaro,Wenjun Zhou,Geoffrey W. Greene,Melissa D. Olfert,Kristin Riggsbee,Jesse Stabile Morrell,Anne E. Mathews +9 more
TL;DR: Food insecurity among first-year college students is highly prevalent and has implications for academic performance and health outcomes, and higher education institutions should screen for food insecurity and implement policy and programmatic initiatives to promote a healthier college experience.
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The Relationship Between Food Security, Housing Stability, and School Performance Among College Students in an Urban University:
Meghan R. Silva,Whitney L. Kleinert,A. Victoria Sheppard,Kathryn A. Cantrell,Darren J. Freeman-Coppadge,Elena Tsoy,Tangela Roberts,Melissa Pearrow +7 more
TL;DR: Although younger populations, such as emerging adults, have been shown to be particularly susceptible to food insecurity and housing instability, the current research is predominantly devoid of lit... as discussed by the authors, however, they have shown that younger populations are more likely to experience food insecurity.
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Food Insecurity and the Burden of Health-Related Social Problems in an Urban Youth Population.
Tamara E. Baer,Tamara E. Baer,Emily A. Scherer,Eric W. Fleegler,Eric W. Fleegler,Areej Hassan,Areej Hassan +6 more
TL;DR: One-third of youth in sample experienced food insecurity, which was strongly associated with presence of other health-related social problems, and the two-item screen effectively detected food insecurity.
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Modeling for the equitable and effective distribution of donated food under capacity constraints
TL;DR: In this paper, a deterministic network-flow model is developed to minimize the amount of undistributed food while maintaining a user-specified upper bound on the absolute deviation of each county from a perfectly equitable distribution.
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Gender-based violence, relationship power, and risk of HIV infection in women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa
Kristin Dunkle,Rachel Jewkes,Heather C. Brown,Glenda E. Gray,James A. McIntryre,Siobán D. Harlow +5 more
TL;DR: Women with violent or controlling male partners are at increased risk of HIV infection and it is postulate that abusive men are more likely to have HIV and impose risky sexual practices on partners.
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Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for Measurement of Food Access: Indicator Guide: Version 3
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