Addressing Food and Nutrition Security in Developed Countries

• Main Author: Pollard, Christina (auth)
• Other Authors: Booth, Sue (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: diet affordability; California Health Interview Survey; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; deservingness; subsidy; mental health; remote; welfare state; incentive; cost of a healthy diet; access to food; monitoring and surveillance; INFORMAS; children; qualitative; disadvantages; poverty; food insecurity; food service; social support; reference budgets; determinants; non-communicable disease; Canadian adults; monitoring; diet prices; inequality; food affordability; physical health; food equality; Finland; diet-related chronic disease; older people; women; Pacific diets; Newstart allowance; charitable food services; Indigenous; social assistance; food system; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); Healthy Diets ASAP tool; prevalence; policy; food charity; sex; secondary data; food assistance; developed countries; social enterprise models; low income; M?ori diets; household; food poverty; social assistance payments; food price; community store; Hurricane Katrina; stressful life events; fiscal policy; food stress; low-to-middle income; trauma-informed; rural; experience; stressors; Indigenous population; research; affordability; social determinants; social security; charity; obesity prevention; Sustainable Development Goals; obesity; nutrition environment; coping strategies; welfare recipients; Food-based dietary guidelines; food surveys; experiences; fruit and vegetables; food aid recipient; hunger; nutrition; food supply; mixed methodology research; nutrition policy; household food insecurity; food prices; Asian Americans; intervention; English language use; values; Scotland; acculturation; disaster; voluntary failure; family health; surveillance; diet; food banks; scoping review; ageing; rural communities; path diagram; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population; food pricing; homeless; families; food and nutrition security; food bank; co-creation; urban; food security; food policy; depression; diet price; food aid
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The Addressing Food and Nutrition Security in Developed Countries Special Issue is a collection of papers from researchers in counties with developed economies who are responding to increasing prevalence of food insecurity. Food insecurity is relatively hidden, and the real extent of the problem is likely to be underestimated in many of these countries. Novel methods to estimate the prevalence of food insecurity in the face of no routine measurement are presented. Population surveys highlight adverse mental health outcomes and new and emerging subgroups that are experiencing food insecurity. Understanding the factors associated with food insecurity and how people cope is extremely important when considering how best to address the problem. Readers can become familiar with the lived experience of food insecurity in some countries-essential intelligence for effective policy and interventions. The extent of food banking operations and the nature of the charitable response in some countries is also described. Country-specific research highlights the importance of understanding the cultural and external environmental context. The influence the cost of food and budgetary tools on diet and food insecurity suggests opportunities for intervention. Researchers calls for social protection and high-quality dignified responses to address this complex public health problem.