Cross-Sectional Analysis of Factors Predicting Food Assistance Stigma [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThe stigma associated with food assistance can be a barrier to resolving food insecurity. Self-reliance expectations likely contribute to this stigma. Aim: This cross-sectional study identified factors that predict perceptions of food assistance stigma ...
Frances Hardin-Fanning +2 more
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?People Like Us?: News Coverage of Food Assistance During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Health Equity, 2022 Objective: To understand how the public discourse around food assistance and social responsibility evolved during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing news coverage.
Mejia P +4 more
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?Those Who Need It the Most?: Equity Framing in 2021 U.S. Print News About Food Assistance [PDF]
Health Equity, 2023 Objective: To understand how equity appeared in news about food assistance from 2021. Methods: We assessed a national sample of news articles (N=298) for equity arguments and language about racial and health equity.
Mahmood H +9 more
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Food insecurity, food assistance, and physical and cognitive functioning among older Americans. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIntroductionFood insecurity is associated with adverse late-life health outcomes, including disability, dementia, and mortality. But its role in changes in physical and cognitive functioning remains unclear, as does the impact of food assistance ...
Usha Dhakal +2 more
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Association between early-pandemic food assistance use and subsequent food security trajectories among households in Washington State during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundResearch on COVID-19's impact on food insecurity has primarily relied on cross-sectional data or long recall periods, with limited investigations into longitudinal patterns or the role of food assistance.MethodsWe analyzed longitudinal data ...
James H Buszkiewicz +7 more
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Exploring the associations of food and financial insecurity and food assistance with breastfeeding practices among first-time mothers [PDF]
Public Health NutritionObjective: Social determinants of health (SDoH), such as food and financial insecurity and food assistance, are potentially modifiable factors that may influence breastfeeding initiation and duration.
Junia N de Brito +4 more
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Incorporating cash-based interventions into food assistance programs in humanitarian settings [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Juliette Lash +3 more
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Food assistance use barriers, facilitators, and recommendations: insights from a qualitative study of racially and ethnically diverse parents [PDF]
Journal of Nutritional ScienceThe objective of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators to utilising a range of food assistance resources as reported by parents living with or at risk for food insecurity (FI), as well as parents’ recommendations for improving utilisation ...
Vivienne M. Hazzard +6 more
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Social Sciences, 2021 This work analyzes the relationship between the precarization of everyday life and the increase in food insecurity in Catalonia (Spain). Based on an ethnographic analysis of the food itineraries of a group of people in a situation of precarity, this ...
Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz +2 more
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Development Studies Research, 2023 This study proposes an analytical approach to support the selection of intervention strategy in response to conditions of food insecurity. This is done by assessing the functionality of the local market providing particular attention to the simulation of
Alessandro De Matteis, Frank Ellis
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