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Craig Gundersen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Food Insecurity during COVID-19.
Applied economic perspectives and policy, 2020Co-Authors: Craig Gundersen, Monica Hake, Adam Dewey, Emily EngelhardAbstract:For a decade, Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap (MMG) has provided sub-state-level estimates of Food Insecurity for both the full-population and for children. Along with being extensively used by Food banks, it is widely used by state- and local-governments to help plan responses to Food Insecurity in their communities. In this paper, we describe the methods underpinning MMG, detail the approach Feeding America has used to make projections about the geography of Food Insecurity in 2020, and how Food Insecurity rates may have changed due to COVID-19 since 2018. We project an increase of 17 million Americans who are Food insecure in 2020 but this aggregate increase masks substantial geographic variation found in MMG.
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Food Insecurity and Health Outcomes
The Economists' Voice, 2017Co-Authors: Craig Gundersen, Hilary K. SeligmanAbstract:AbstractFood Insecurity is increasingly recognized as a major health crisis in the U.S. More than 42 million persons were Food insecure in 2015, far higher than the levels preceding the 2007 Great Recession. Decades of research demonstrate that Food Insecurity diminishes individuals’ overall well-being. The recognition of Food Insecurity as a health crisis, however, stems from a more recent appreciation of the multiple negative health outcomes and, thus, higher health care costs, attributable to Food Insecurity. An extensive literature from multiple fields, including agricultural economics, economics, medicine, and nutrition, has emerged in recognition of Food Insecurity as a health crisis. Among other findings, Food Insecurity among children is associated with increased risks of some birth defects, anemia, lower nutrient intakes, cognitive problems, and aggression and anxiety. Food Insecurity is also associated with higher risks of being hospitalized, poorer general health, worse oral health and with having asthma, behavioral problems, depression, and suicidal ideation. For adults, studies have shown that Food Insecurity is associated with decreased nutrient intakes; increased rates of mental health problems (including depression), diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia; being in poor or fair health; and poor sleep outcomes. Food Insecurity and poor health are likely linked bi-directionally; that is, it is true both that living in a Food insecure household predisposes an individual to poor health, and that poor health predisposes one to living in a Food insecure household. After describing how Food Insecurity is measured, we turn to the multiple causes of Food Insecurity and potential pathways through which Food Insecurity leads to these negative health outcomes. Finally, we describe two recently articulated interventions designed to address both Food Insecurity and its health impact. The first is a targeted increase in benefit levels for supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) enrollees and near eligible households, and the second provides tailored support for Food insecure individuals with diabetes.
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Multigenerational Families and Food Insecurity
Southern Economic Journal, 2016Co-Authors: James P. Ziliak, Craig GundersenAbstract:The prevalence of multigenerational families is on the rise in the United States, as is Food Insecurity. We estimate the association of resident grandchildren on transitions in Food Insecurity using longitudinally linked two-year panels of the Current Population Survey from 2001 to 2010. We find that rates of Food Insecurity in families with a grandchild present are at least twice as high in a typical year compared with families without a resident grandchild, and the extent of very low Food security increased substantially faster among these households over the past decade. The rise in Food Insecurity during and after the Great Recession is due to both increased entry into Food Insecurity and decreased exit out of Food Insecurity. A similar trend accounts for the rise in multigenerational households during the recession—grandchildren were more likely to move in with their grandparents, and once there, were less likely to move out. Our transition models show that whether grandchildren remain, or in periods of transition, multigenerational families are at heightened risk of entering Food Insecurity and remaining in this state. However, the entry of a grandchild may not always be a negative for the family's Food security, nor the exit of the child a positive. Entrance of a child seems to buffer the family from extreme forms of Food Insecurity while exit exposes the family to risk of deeper Food Insecurity.
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Food Insecurity and health outcomes
Health Affairs, 2015Co-Authors: Craig Gundersen, James P. ZiliakAbstract:Almost fifty million people are Food insecure in the United States, which makes Food Insecurity one of the nation’s leading health and nutrition issues. We examine recent research evidence of the health consequences of Food Insecurity for children, nonsenior adults, and seniors in the United States. For context, we first provide an overview of how Food Insecurity is measured in the country, followed by a presentation of recent trends in the prevalence of Food Insecurity. Then we present a survey of selected recent research that examined the association between Food Insecurity and health outcomes. We show that the literature has consistently found Food Insecurity to be negatively associated with health. For example, after confounding risk factors were controlled for, studies found that Food-insecure children are at least twice as likely to report being in fair or poor health and at least 1.4 times more likely to have asthma, compared to Food-secure children; and Food-insecure seniors have limitations in ac...
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association between household Food Insecurity and annual health care costs
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2015Co-Authors: Valerie Tarasuk, Craig Gundersen, Joyce Cheng, Claire De Oliveira, Naomi Dachner, Paul KurdyakAbstract:Background: Household Food Insecurity, a measure of income-related problems of Food access, is growing in Canada and is tightly linked to poorer health status. We examined the association between household Food Insecurity status and annual health care costs. Methods: We obtained data for 67 033 people aged 18–64 years in Ontario who participated in the Canadian Community Health Survey in 2005, 2007/08 or 2009/10 to assess their household Food Insecurity status in the 12 months before the survey interview. We linked these data with administrative health care data to determine individuals’ direct health care costs during the same 12-month period. Results: Total health care costs and mean costs for inpatient hospital care, emergency department visits, physician services, same-day surgeries, home care services and prescription drugs covered by the Ontario Drug Benefit Program rose systematically with increasing severity of household Food Insecurity. Compared with total annual health care costs in Food-secure households, adjusted annual costs were 16% ($235) higher in households with marginal Food Insecurity (95% confidence interval [CI] 10%–23% [$141–$334]), 32% ($455) higher in households with moderate Food Insecurity (95% CI 25%–39% [$361–$553]) and 76% ($1092) higher in households with severe Food Insecurity (95% CI 65%–88% [$934–$1260]). When costs of prescription drugs covered by the Ontario Drug Benefit Program were included, the adjusted annual costs were 23% higher in households with marginal Food Insecurity (95% CI 16%–31%), 49% higher in those with moderate Food Insecurity (95% CI 41%–57%) and 121% higher in those with severe Food Insecurity (95% CI 107%–136%). Interpretation: Household Food Insecurity was a robust predictor of health care utilization and costs incurred by working-age adults, independent of other social determinants of health. Policy interventions at the provincial or federal level designed to reduce household Food Insecurity could offset considerable public expenditures in health care.
Tefara Belachew - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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gender bias in the Food Insecurity experience of ethiopian adolescents
Social Science & Medicine, 2008Co-Authors: Craig Hadley, David P Lindstrom, Fasil Tessema, Tefara BelachewAbstract:Food Insecurity is a pressing public health concern in many developing countries. Despite widespread interest in the sociocultural determinants of Food Insecurity, little is known about whether youths living in Food insecure households experience Food Insecurity. The buffering hypothesis reviewed here assumes that, to the extent possible, adult members of households will buffer younger household members from the ill effects of Food Insecurity. A variant of the buffering hypothesis argues that only certain members of the households will enjoy the benefits of buffering. We hypothesize that within the context of Ethiopia, where girls have historically experienced discrimination, buffering is preferentially aimed at boys, especially as the household experiences greater levels of Food stress. These hypotheses are tested using data from a population-based study of 2084 adolescents living in southwestern Ethiopia. Results indicate that boys and girls were equally likely to be living in severely Food insecure households. Despite no differences in their households' Food Insecurity status, girls were more likely than boys to report being Food insecure themselves. This gender difference was the largest in severely Food insecure households. This same pattern was observed when comparing male-female sibling pairs living in the same household. These results are among the first to show that household level measures of Food Insecurity predict adolescent experiences of Food Insecurity, and that in the Ethiopian socio-cultural context, the relationship between household level Food Insecurity and adolescent Food Insecurity varies by gender. We also show that adolescent Food Insecurity is strongly associated with measures of general health and well-being.
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Gender Bias in the Food Insecurity Experience of Ethiopian Adolescents
Social science & medicine (1982), 2007Co-Authors: Craig Hadley, David P Lindstrom, Fasil Tessema, Tefara BelachewAbstract:Food Insecurity is a pressing public health concern in many developing countries. Despite widespread interest in the sociocultural determinants of Food Insecurity, little is known about whether youths living in Food insecure households experience Food Insecurity. The buffering hypothesis reviewed here assumes that, to the extent possible, adult members of households will buffer younger household members from the ill effects of Food Insecurity. A variant of the buffering hypothesis argues that only certain members of the households will enjoy the benefits of buffering. We hypothesize that within the context of Ethiopia, where girls have historically experienced discrimination, buffering is preferentially aimed at boys, especially as the household experiences greater levels of Food stress. These hypotheses are tested using data from a population-based study of 2084 adolescents living in southwestern Ethiopia. Results indicate that boys and girls were equally likely to be living in severely Food insecure households. Despite no differences in their households' Food Insecurity status, girls were more likely than boys to report being Food insecure themselves. This gender difference was the largest in severely Food insecure households. This same pattern was observed when comparing male-female sibling pairs living in the same household. These results are among the first to show that household level measures of Food Insecurity predict adolescent experiences of Food Insecurity, and that in the Ethiopian socio-cultural context, the relationship between household level Food Insecurity and adolescent Food Insecurity varies by gender. We also show that adolescent Food Insecurity is strongly associated with measures of general health and well-being.
Craig Hadley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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gender bias in the Food Insecurity experience of ethiopian adolescents
Social Science & Medicine, 2008Co-Authors: Craig Hadley, David P Lindstrom, Fasil Tessema, Tefara BelachewAbstract:Food Insecurity is a pressing public health concern in many developing countries. Despite widespread interest in the sociocultural determinants of Food Insecurity, little is known about whether youths living in Food insecure households experience Food Insecurity. The buffering hypothesis reviewed here assumes that, to the extent possible, adult members of households will buffer younger household members from the ill effects of Food Insecurity. A variant of the buffering hypothesis argues that only certain members of the households will enjoy the benefits of buffering. We hypothesize that within the context of Ethiopia, where girls have historically experienced discrimination, buffering is preferentially aimed at boys, especially as the household experiences greater levels of Food stress. These hypotheses are tested using data from a population-based study of 2084 adolescents living in southwestern Ethiopia. Results indicate that boys and girls were equally likely to be living in severely Food insecure households. Despite no differences in their households' Food Insecurity status, girls were more likely than boys to report being Food insecure themselves. This gender difference was the largest in severely Food insecure households. This same pattern was observed when comparing male-female sibling pairs living in the same household. These results are among the first to show that household level measures of Food Insecurity predict adolescent experiences of Food Insecurity, and that in the Ethiopian socio-cultural context, the relationship between household level Food Insecurity and adolescent Food Insecurity varies by gender. We also show that adolescent Food Insecurity is strongly associated with measures of general health and well-being.
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Gender Bias in the Food Insecurity Experience of Ethiopian Adolescents
Social science & medicine (1982), 2007Co-Authors: Craig Hadley, David P Lindstrom, Fasil Tessema, Tefara BelachewAbstract:Food Insecurity is a pressing public health concern in many developing countries. Despite widespread interest in the sociocultural determinants of Food Insecurity, little is known about whether youths living in Food insecure households experience Food Insecurity. The buffering hypothesis reviewed here assumes that, to the extent possible, adult members of households will buffer younger household members from the ill effects of Food Insecurity. A variant of the buffering hypothesis argues that only certain members of the households will enjoy the benefits of buffering. We hypothesize that within the context of Ethiopia, where girls have historically experienced discrimination, buffering is preferentially aimed at boys, especially as the household experiences greater levels of Food stress. These hypotheses are tested using data from a population-based study of 2084 adolescents living in southwestern Ethiopia. Results indicate that boys and girls were equally likely to be living in severely Food insecure households. Despite no differences in their households' Food Insecurity status, girls were more likely than boys to report being Food insecure themselves. This gender difference was the largest in severely Food insecure households. This same pattern was observed when comparing male-female sibling pairs living in the same household. These results are among the first to show that household level measures of Food Insecurity predict adolescent experiences of Food Insecurity, and that in the Ethiopian socio-cultural context, the relationship between household level Food Insecurity and adolescent Food Insecurity varies by gender. We also show that adolescent Food Insecurity is strongly associated with measures of general health and well-being.
David P Lindstrom - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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gender bias in the Food Insecurity experience of ethiopian adolescents
Social Science & Medicine, 2008Co-Authors: Craig Hadley, David P Lindstrom, Fasil Tessema, Tefara BelachewAbstract:Food Insecurity is a pressing public health concern in many developing countries. Despite widespread interest in the sociocultural determinants of Food Insecurity, little is known about whether youths living in Food insecure households experience Food Insecurity. The buffering hypothesis reviewed here assumes that, to the extent possible, adult members of households will buffer younger household members from the ill effects of Food Insecurity. A variant of the buffering hypothesis argues that only certain members of the households will enjoy the benefits of buffering. We hypothesize that within the context of Ethiopia, where girls have historically experienced discrimination, buffering is preferentially aimed at boys, especially as the household experiences greater levels of Food stress. These hypotheses are tested using data from a population-based study of 2084 adolescents living in southwestern Ethiopia. Results indicate that boys and girls were equally likely to be living in severely Food insecure households. Despite no differences in their households' Food Insecurity status, girls were more likely than boys to report being Food insecure themselves. This gender difference was the largest in severely Food insecure households. This same pattern was observed when comparing male-female sibling pairs living in the same household. These results are among the first to show that household level measures of Food Insecurity predict adolescent experiences of Food Insecurity, and that in the Ethiopian socio-cultural context, the relationship between household level Food Insecurity and adolescent Food Insecurity varies by gender. We also show that adolescent Food Insecurity is strongly associated with measures of general health and well-being.
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Gender Bias in the Food Insecurity Experience of Ethiopian Adolescents
Social science & medicine (1982), 2007Co-Authors: Craig Hadley, David P Lindstrom, Fasil Tessema, Tefara BelachewAbstract:Food Insecurity is a pressing public health concern in many developing countries. Despite widespread interest in the sociocultural determinants of Food Insecurity, little is known about whether youths living in Food insecure households experience Food Insecurity. The buffering hypothesis reviewed here assumes that, to the extent possible, adult members of households will buffer younger household members from the ill effects of Food Insecurity. A variant of the buffering hypothesis argues that only certain members of the households will enjoy the benefits of buffering. We hypothesize that within the context of Ethiopia, where girls have historically experienced discrimination, buffering is preferentially aimed at boys, especially as the household experiences greater levels of Food stress. These hypotheses are tested using data from a population-based study of 2084 adolescents living in southwestern Ethiopia. Results indicate that boys and girls were equally likely to be living in severely Food insecure households. Despite no differences in their households' Food Insecurity status, girls were more likely than boys to report being Food insecure themselves. This gender difference was the largest in severely Food insecure households. This same pattern was observed when comparing male-female sibling pairs living in the same household. These results are among the first to show that household level measures of Food Insecurity predict adolescent experiences of Food Insecurity, and that in the Ethiopian socio-cultural context, the relationship between household level Food Insecurity and adolescent Food Insecurity varies by gender. We also show that adolescent Food Insecurity is strongly associated with measures of general health and well-being.
Fasil Tessema - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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gender bias in the Food Insecurity experience of ethiopian adolescents
Social Science & Medicine, 2008Co-Authors: Craig Hadley, David P Lindstrom, Fasil Tessema, Tefara BelachewAbstract:Food Insecurity is a pressing public health concern in many developing countries. Despite widespread interest in the sociocultural determinants of Food Insecurity, little is known about whether youths living in Food insecure households experience Food Insecurity. The buffering hypothesis reviewed here assumes that, to the extent possible, adult members of households will buffer younger household members from the ill effects of Food Insecurity. A variant of the buffering hypothesis argues that only certain members of the households will enjoy the benefits of buffering. We hypothesize that within the context of Ethiopia, where girls have historically experienced discrimination, buffering is preferentially aimed at boys, especially as the household experiences greater levels of Food stress. These hypotheses are tested using data from a population-based study of 2084 adolescents living in southwestern Ethiopia. Results indicate that boys and girls were equally likely to be living in severely Food insecure households. Despite no differences in their households' Food Insecurity status, girls were more likely than boys to report being Food insecure themselves. This gender difference was the largest in severely Food insecure households. This same pattern was observed when comparing male-female sibling pairs living in the same household. These results are among the first to show that household level measures of Food Insecurity predict adolescent experiences of Food Insecurity, and that in the Ethiopian socio-cultural context, the relationship between household level Food Insecurity and adolescent Food Insecurity varies by gender. We also show that adolescent Food Insecurity is strongly associated with measures of general health and well-being.
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Gender Bias in the Food Insecurity Experience of Ethiopian Adolescents
Social science & medicine (1982), 2007Co-Authors: Craig Hadley, David P Lindstrom, Fasil Tessema, Tefara BelachewAbstract:Food Insecurity is a pressing public health concern in many developing countries. Despite widespread interest in the sociocultural determinants of Food Insecurity, little is known about whether youths living in Food insecure households experience Food Insecurity. The buffering hypothesis reviewed here assumes that, to the extent possible, adult members of households will buffer younger household members from the ill effects of Food Insecurity. A variant of the buffering hypothesis argues that only certain members of the households will enjoy the benefits of buffering. We hypothesize that within the context of Ethiopia, where girls have historically experienced discrimination, buffering is preferentially aimed at boys, especially as the household experiences greater levels of Food stress. These hypotheses are tested using data from a population-based study of 2084 adolescents living in southwestern Ethiopia. Results indicate that boys and girls were equally likely to be living in severely Food insecure households. Despite no differences in their households' Food Insecurity status, girls were more likely than boys to report being Food insecure themselves. This gender difference was the largest in severely Food insecure households. This same pattern was observed when comparing male-female sibling pairs living in the same household. These results are among the first to show that household level measures of Food Insecurity predict adolescent experiences of Food Insecurity, and that in the Ethiopian socio-cultural context, the relationship between household level Food Insecurity and adolescent Food Insecurity varies by gender. We also show that adolescent Food Insecurity is strongly associated with measures of general health and well-being.
