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Household Food Insecurity in Canada
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Food insecurity became recognized as a problem in Canada in the early 1980s when community groups began to establish charitable food assistance programs in response to concerns that people in their midst were going hungry.Abstract:
Food insecurity became recognized as a problem in Canada in the early 1980s when community groups began to establish charitable food assistance programs in response to concerns that people in their midst were going hungry. Since then, the number of Canadians affected by food insecurity has grown, but food charity remains the primary response. Children's feeding programs, prenatal nutrition programs, and a number of smaller scale, community development programs have also been instituted. However, growing recognition of the limitations of these efforts to address food problems rooted in chronically inadequate household incomes has led to a renewed emphasis on advocacy for social policy reforms.read more
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Household Food Insufficiency Is Associated with Poorer Health
TL;DR: The findings suggest that food insufficiency is one dimension of a more pervasive vulnerability to a range of physical, mental and social health problems among households struggling with economic constraints.
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TL;DR: A subset of valid and reliable items that represented each of the major dimensions and components of hunger was identified as being useful for monitoring and assessing hunger.
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Food insecurity : Consequences for the household and broader social implications
TL;DR: A conceptual framework showing the household and social implications of food insecurity was elicited from a qualitative and quantitative study of 98 households from a heterogeneous low income population of Quebec city and rural surroundings, suggesting that important aspects of human development depend on food security.
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Characterization of household food insecurity in Québec: food and feelings.
TL;DR: The results substantiate the existence of food insecurity among Québecers and confirm that the nature of this experience is consistent with many of the core components identified in upstate New York.
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Household Food Insecurity with Hunger Is Associated with Women's Food Intakes, Health and Household Circumstances
TL;DR: Household food insecurity appears inextricably linked to financial insecurity, and expenditures on other goods and services were sometimes foregone to free up money for food, but the reverse was also true.