Public Health Implications of Preventive Nutrition

Blumberg, Jeffrey B.

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“…These findings are consistent with gender research, which shows that part of heterosexual masculinity includes men’s resistance to seeking medical care, buttressed by the notion that men do not require medical care but instead cope with physical health problems on their own (Courtenay 2000). In turn, heterosexual women take on the responsibility for pressuring reluctant men to obtain medical care as part of their duties as wives (Blumberg et al 2014; Norcross, Ramirez, and Palinkas 1996).…”

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“…From a gender-as-relational perspective, it may be that women in both heterosexual and lesbian marriages are more likely than gay and heterosexual men to urge routine medical care for their spouse because women view healthcare work as central to their responsibilities and skills as wives (Gibbons et al 2014). Blumberg, Vahratian, and Blumberg (2014) show heterosexual married men are more likely than cohabiting and non-cohabiting non-married men to have had at least one healthcare visit in the last month and are more likely than all other groups to have routine screenings. In turn, lesbian women may enact normative femininity and their status as wives in ways similarly to heterosexual women, whereas gay men may fail to do healthcare work due to their enactment of normative masculinity and their status as husbands.…”

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Healthcare Work in Marriage: How Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Spouses Encourage and Coerce Medical Care

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Marriage benefits health in part because spouses promote one another’s well-being, yet how spouses facilitate formal healthcare (e.g., doctor’s visits, emergency care) via what we call healthcare work is unknown. Moreover, like other aspects of the marital-health link, healthcare work dynamics likely vary by gender and couple type. To explore this possibility, we use in-depth interviews with 90 midlife gay, lesbian, and heterosexual spouses to examine how spouses perform healthcare work. Our results show that in heterosexual marriage, women perform the bulk of healthcare work and typically do so in coercive ways. A minority of heterosexual men provide instrumental healthcare work for their wives. Gay and lesbian spouses appear to commonly use both coercive and supportive healthcare work strategies to effectively promote healthcare use. Our findings demonstrate the ways spouses are central to supporting and coercing one another to obtain medical care and how these patterns are gendered.

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“…A (marginally) deficient intake may arise when food choices result in an unbalanced diet, if the diet is naturally poor in specific nutrients, if a nutrient is removed during processing, handling or storage, or if, because of physiological conditions, requirements are increased. Policy instruments to improve nutrient intake of a population or population groups are nutrition education, fortification and recommendation of the use of supplements 1,2 .…”

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Vitamin and mineral intakes in European children. Is food fortification needed?

Serra-Majem

2001

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To provide an overview of vitamin and mineral intakes among children and adolescents in European countries and to present results from studies showing the impact of food fortification. Design: Comparative analysis of a number of nutritional studies among children and adolescents performed during the last decade in certain European countries. Subjects: Europeans aged 6 to 18. Results: Dietary surveys across Europe showed that varying levels of nutrient adequacy existed from one country to another, and that even within the same country, there were important nutritional gaps between different regions. In general, studies are difficult to compare, and information for many countries was missing. The results suggest that children and adolescents are the population group most likely to have higher risk of nutritional deficiencies, particularly for iron, vitamins C, E, B 6 and folates. In France, Ireland, UK and Spain, food fortification, and particularly of breakfast cereals, has positively contributed to increasing vitamin and mineral intakes in childhood and adolescence. Conclusions: Information on vitamin and mineral intakes in European children is less available than in adults. Fortified foods may contribute to reducing nutrient inadequacy in European children and adolescents, but should not replace nutrition education.

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Public Health Implications of Preventive Nutrition

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Healthcare Work in Marriage: How Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Spouses Encourage and Coerce Medical Care

Healthcare Work in Marriage: How Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Spouses Encourage and Coerce Medical Care

Vitamin and mineral intakes in European children. Is food fortification needed?

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