2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2020.07.006
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Food Insecurity and Health: Practices and Policies to Address Food Insecurity among Children

Abstract: T A G G E D P PEDIATRICIANS CAN AND should play a critical role in addressing food insecurity, a health-related social need with harmful impacts on child health, development, and well-being. 1 Food insecurity is a term defined by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) that indicates that the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or the ability to acquire such food, is limited or uncertain for a household. 2 A variety of strategies exist for pediatricians to address food insecurity among childr… Show more

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“…Overall adolescent girls from food insecure households near to two times more likely to be stunted which is supported by other local reports in Amhara national region [ 23 ], Dabat [ 12 ], Jimma [ 51 ]. It’s the fact that one of the underlying causes of under-nutrition is food insecurity [ 52 , 53 ]. This implies food insecure individuals have been affected by stunting and exposing them to further complications like poor school performance and poor reproductive outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Overall adolescent girls from food insecure households near to two times more likely to be stunted which is supported by other local reports in Amhara national region [ 23 ], Dabat [ 12 ], Jimma [ 51 ]. It’s the fact that one of the underlying causes of under-nutrition is food insecurity [ 52 , 53 ]. This implies food insecure individuals have been affected by stunting and exposing them to further complications like poor school performance and poor reproductive outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research has shown an association between early life adversity and lower adult SES (Metzler et al, 2017), and that children of lower SES, on average, have poorer white matter integrity than children of higher SES (Ursache and Noble, 2016; Dufford and Kim, 2017), although results have been inconsistent across studies (Chiang et al, 2011; Jednorog et al, 2012). This suggests that SES-related differences in FA may begin in childhood, and perhaps, continue to widen due to lifelong exposure to various biopsychosocial risk factors, including inadequate nutrition (Hartline-Grafton and Dean, 2017), lesser access to health care (Lazar and Davenport, 2018), chronic stress (Baum et al, 1999), environmental toxins (Evans and Kantrowitz, 2002), and greater overall burden of disease (Pathirana and Jackson, 2018).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In recent times, nutrition has been viewed as an investment and a contributory factor towards achieving sustainable development. Therefore, anything (including food and nutrition insecurity) threatening the attainment of optimal nutrition in any population group must be urgently addressed (Webb, 2014; Hartline-Grafton, 2011). Over a third of respondents experienced reduction of meal sizes, which is similar to findings from a community-based, urban study in Addis Ababa (Birhane et al , 2014).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%