Research opportunities concerning the causes and consequences of child food insecurity and hunger : workshop summary /

"Section 141 of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 20101 provides funding for a research program on the causes and consequences of childhood hunger and food insecurity, and the characteristics of households with childhood hunger and food insecurity, with a particular focus on efforts to impro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Workshop on Research Gaps--Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger Washington, D.C.
Otros Autores: Kirkendall, Nancy J. (Nancy Jean) (rapporteur.), House, Carol C. (rapporteur.), Citro, Constance F. (Constance Forbes), 1942- (rapporteur.)
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2013]
Temas:
Food security > United States > Congresses.
Children > Nutrition > United States > Congresses.
Food relief > United States > Congresses.
Hunger > United States > Congresses.
Food supply.
Children > Nutrition.
Hunger.
Food Supply
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Hunger
Sécurité alimentaire > États-Unis > Congrès.
Aide alimentaire > États-Unis > Congrès.
Faim > États-Unis > Congrès.
Aliments > Approvisionnement.
Enfants > Alimentation.
Faim.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Food supply
Children > Nutrition
Food relief
Food security
United States
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Defining and measuring food security
  • Individual and household determinants of child food insecurity and hunger
  • Contextual factors linked to child food insecurity and hunger
  • Individual and family coping responses to hunger
  • Community responses to food insecurity and hunger
  • Public policy responses to hunger
  • Health and developmental correlates of child food insecurity from pregnancy to adolescence
  • Measurement and surveillance of child food insecurity and hunger
  • Wrap-up.

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