Re-assessing vulnerability to foodborne illness: pathways and practices

Jackson, Peter; Meah, Angela

doi:10.1080/09581596.2017.1285008

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“…However, after feeling lost for varying periods of time, all participants described how they eventually found strategies to manage the situation, and the state of vulnerability ended . For the mothers in our study, vulnerability was situational (Jackson & Meah, 2018)a result of contextual factors surrounding their performance of weaning practice rather than their age or socioeconomic status. It was also diachronic; these mothers moved in and out of vulnerable positions as their everyday practices involved events where the babythe object at riskwere suddenly placed in relation to an risk object, for example processed food with non-Swedish origin as in the case of Klara, or inconsistent information as in the case of Ingrid.…”

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The construction and navigation of riskscapes in public health advice and mothers’ accounts of weaning

Fuentes

Brembeck

2019

Health, Risk & Society

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This paper adds to critical studies of risk and mothering by illustrating and conceptualising how risk is constructed in public health advice and mothers' accounts of weaning. Previous research points towards a gap between public health scientific definitions of risk and mothers' contextual understandings and experience of handling complex and often conflicting risks linked to food and feeding. It has been suggested that public health discourse misses out on or even silences risks defined by women in their everyday care practices. Therefore, our aim is to conceptualise and map various co-existing constructions of risk and discuss how an awareness of the multiplicity of risk can inform public health advice that take mothers' point of view into account. Using the concept 'riskscape', we explore and compare how public health and mothers' constructions of risk diverge and overlap. Our findings illustrate how mothers belong to a community of practice where weaning is understood and practiced in relation to their everyday life and eating practices involving multiple concerns that are not addressed in public health advice, especially the wider food and information landscape. The study also indicate that this divergence can provoke feelings of insecurity and anxiety among mothers and make public health advice seem less relevant. In sum, our findings suggest a need for public health to acknowledge mothers' experience of weaning as a compound practice similar to their own eating practices and to widen the present focus on risk as a domestic and individual responsibility.

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Section: Weaning Practice and Risks In Parents' Accountsmentioning

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The construction and navigation of riskscapes in public health advice and mothers’ accounts of weaning

Fuentes

Brembeck

2019

Health, Risk & Society

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“…Although foodborne infection can affect anyone, current advice about the risks of contracting a foodborne illness tend to focus on specific populations who are considered particularly vulnerable (26). In countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States, 20% of the population may be more susceptible to foodborne illness than the general population (34).…”

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Identifying Vulnerable Populations at Risk of Foodborne Infection: People with Diabetes Mellitus

Evans

Gwynne

2020

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Individuals with compromised immunity have an increased risk of foodborne infection; however, many of these individuals are not aware that they are more vulnerable to foodborne infections. Consequently, such individuals need to become aware of their increased risk and of food safety practices necessary to reduce the potential risk of foodborne disease. Consumer food safety research suggests that highly focused, targeted interventions are the most effective means of consumer food safety education. Interventions that enable immunocompromised individuals to understand their increased susceptibility to infection may empower this vulnerable group to adopt risk-reducing food safety practices. The aim of this article is to explore the association between foodborne infection and diabetes mellitus to increase the understanding of this underrepresented group within food safety research. Findings may help inform the development of future food safety educational interventions specifically intended for people living with diabetes mellitus.

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“…In earlier work, we explored how the performance of practices within the domestic kitchen could either protect or propel an older person towards vulnerability in terms of food-borne illness (Dickinson et al , 2014). Jackson and Meah (2018) drew on this and other studies to explore vulnerability in relation to food-borne illness, concluding that vulnerability is situational, contextual and dynamic. They argue that vulnerability goes beyond the conceptualisation provided by Schröder-Butterfill and Marianti (2006), and call on ‘authorities to develop a more nuanced understanding of vulnerability’ (Jackson and Meah, 2018: 91) to develop and target public health interventions better.…”

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“…Jackson and Meah (2018) drew on this and other studies to explore vulnerability in relation to food-borne illness, concluding that vulnerability is situational, contextual and dynamic. They argue that vulnerability goes beyond the conceptualisation provided by Schröder-Butterfill and Marianti (2006), and call on ‘authorities to develop a more nuanced understanding of vulnerability’ (Jackson and Meah, 2018: 91) to develop and target public health interventions better. However, they fell short of providing a practical model that could support policy makers and practitioners to achieve these ends better and the present study therefore seeks to address this gap.…”

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Food security and food practices in later life: a new model of vulnerability

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The older population is particularly susceptible to malnutrition, which currently affects 1.3 million people aged 65+ in the United Kingdom. Malnutrition is an outcome of food insecurity and despite demographic changes that have led to a rise in numbers of older people, we know very little about how older people become vulnerable to food insecurity. The aim of this study was therefore to explore older people's everyday food practices in order to expose the strengths and challenges within local and national food systems, and better understand how food insecurity might arise in later life. This empirical study operationalised practice theory using a multi-method ethnographic approach with 25 households aged 60–94 years, comprising interviews, observation, visual methods and food logs. A model of vulnerability developed by Schröder-Butterfill and Marianti framed data collection and analysis. Analysis revealed the assets and adaptations older households used to protect themselves from threats to food security. Factors ranging from changes to physical and mental health, and structural factors such as supermarket design, moved households towards food insecurity. Smaller everyday ‘trivia’, e.g. lack of seating and accessible toilets in supermarkets, accumulated to shift people towards vulnerability. Vulnerability is structured by the habitus but is a fluid, relational, temporal and socially constructed state, and people moved towards and away from vulnerability. We have developed a model that accommodates this fluidity, incorporates the concept of ‘cumulative trivia’ and suggests how the ‘aggregation of marginal gains’ could counter-balance and address trivial threats. This model demonstrates to policy makers and those working in public health how vulnerability to food insecurity operates and where interventions could be applied to support households to achieve food security and avoid becoming malnourished.

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Re-assessing vulnerability to foodborne illness: pathways and practices

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

The construction and navigation of riskscapes in public health advice and mothers’ accounts of weaning

The construction and navigation of riskscapes in public health advice and mothers’ accounts of weaning

Identifying Vulnerable Populations at Risk of Foodborne Infection: People with Diabetes Mellitus

Food security and food practices in later life: a new model of vulnerability

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