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Tackling Household Food Insecurity: The Experience of Vietnam [PDF]

This paper is a systematic review of the facts and figures related to the issues of food security in Vietnam. Based on a comprehensive definition of food security as “access by all people at all times to enough, nutritionally adequate, and safe food ...
Linley Chiwona-Karltun, Trang Thi Huy Nhat, Britta Ogle, Kjell Havnevik   +3 more
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Comparison of the Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity and Food Choices Among Adults Who Currently Smoke versus Formerly Smoked: A Qualitative Investigation [PDF]

Objective: To describe and compare the lived experiences of food insecurity, including the food choices, of people who currently smoke and people who formerly smoked in rural communities.
Peterson, Emmaline
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Leaving children behind for cross‐border education: Unveiling the emotional agency of international post‐graduate student mothers

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan, Ha Ngan Ngo, Chloe Le   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of chronic food insecurity among adolescents in Southwest Ethiopia: a longitudinal study

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Evidence on the differential impacts of the global food crisis as it translates into chronic food insecurity locally is essential to design food security interventions targeting the most vulnerable population groups.
Belachew Tefera, Lindstrom David, Gebremariam Abebe, Jira Challi, Hattori Megan, Lachat Carl, Huybregts Lieven, Kolsteren Patrick   +7 more
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Does SNAP Decrease Food Insecurity? Untangling the Self-Selection Effect [PDF]

Self-selection by more food-needy households into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called the Food Stamp Program) makes it difficult to observe positive effects of the program in survey data.
Golla, Anne Marie, Nord, Mark
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Predictors of authorised, unauthorised and persistent absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the factors associated with persistent absenteeism (an absence rate of 10% or higher) and authorised and unauthorised absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland. Using linked administrative data, the analysis focuses on secondary school stages S1–S6 in three academic years.
Silvia Behrens, Morag Treanor, Patricio Troncoso, Bethany Lee‐Shield, Emma Russell, Lee Williamson, Cecilia Macintyre   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The community food environment as an effect modifier of the relationship between racial discrimination and food insecurity among adults in Southern Brazil

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Racial discrimination is linked to unhealthy food environments and a higher prevalence of food insecurity. However, no study has explored their interrelated effects.
Emanuele Bottega de Vargas, Mariane da Silva Dias, Ilaine Schuch, Priscila Bárbara Zanini Rosa, Marcos Fanton, Raquel Canuto   +5 more
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Food Access and Food Security – An Empirical Analysis [PDF]

This paper analyzes the effect of access to different types of food outlets on households’ food insecurity levels. Two years (2004 and 2005) of Current Population Survey – Food Security Supplement data are matched with MSA-level data on store counts of ...
Li, Jing, Bonanno, Alessandro
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Food Insecurity in Greece and across the Globe: A Narrative Literature Review

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Food insecurity comprises a major global public health threat, as its effects are detrimental to the mental, physical, and social aspects of the health and well-being of those experiencing it.
Emmanouil Alexandros Fotakis, Ioanna Kontele, Milia Tzoutzou, Maria G. Grammatikopoulou, Eirini Arvanitaki, Theodoros N. Sergentanis, Konstantinos Kotrokois, Eleni Kornarou, Tonia Vassilakou   +8 more
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