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Challenges, 2023 Food insecurity is an ongoing problem in the U.S. with implications for health problems and social disadvantages. Past food insecurity intervention studies have targeted barriers to accessing healthy food.
Michael F. Royer, Christopher Wharton
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The FINDING-Food Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study Addressing Food Insecurity
Challenges, 2023 Food insecurity is an economic and social condition involving limited or uncertain access to food. The problem of food insecurity in communities is influenced by economic conditions, food deserts, and barriers to accessing healthy food.
Michael F. Royer, Christopher Wharton
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Public Health Nutrition, 2023 Objective: This study explored programme recipients’ and deliverers’ experiences and perceived outcomes of accessing or facilitating a grocery gift card (GGC) programme from I Can for Kids (iCAN), a community-based programme that provides GGC to low ...
Yun Yun Lee +9 more
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Voice-Assisted Food Recall Using Voice Assistants
, 2022 In this paper, we design a voice-assisted food recall tool that can be implemented on voice assistants of smart speakers and smartphones, enabling frequent, quick, and real-time self-administered food recall. We envision that voice-assisted food recall can improve the accuracy and usability of the web-based Automated Self-administered 24-hour ...
Xiaohui Liang 0002 +5 more
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Food insecurity and public assistance [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2004 This paper examines if welfare programs reduce the probability that vulnerable households experience food deprivation because of financial constraints. Although the 1996 welfare reform legislation specifically limited the eligibility of immigrant households to receive assistance, many states chose to protect their immigrant populations by offering ...
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Computer Assistance in Food Analysis
Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, 1986 Abstract Laboratory computer links are a key part of acquisition, movement, and interpretation of certain types of data. Remote information retrieval from databases such as the Chemical Information System provides the analyst with structural and toxicologicai information via a laboratory terminal.
L R, Dusold, J A, Roach
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Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2023 Infants younger than 4 months are not ready for complementary foods/drinks (any solid or liquid other than breast milk or infant formula). Almost half of US infants participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
Kristin J. Marks +4 more
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Receiving Assistance and Local Food System Participation
Social Sciences, 2017 A body of literature has noted that local food systems (LFSs) may not involve active participation by individuals with lower incomes. This is, in part, a function of racial and class hegemony, as well as physical and financial accessibility of LFSs.
Rebecca L. Som Castellano
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Water scarcity is a major challenge in the Sahel region of West Africa. Water scarcity in combination with prevalent soil degradation has severely reduced the land productivity in the region.
Vikalp Mishra +10 more
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Public Health Nutrition, 2023 Objective: Food pantries and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are widely available resources for individuals facing food insecurity, yet the dietary quality of individuals using both programmes is not well characterised.
Seema Jain +3 more
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