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Restricted Opportunities, Personal Choices, Ineffective Policies: What Explains Food Insecurity in Oregon? [PDF]

open access: yes
This study examines the extent to which household demographics, local economic and social conditions, and federal food security programs explain the likelihood of household food insecurity in Oregon.
Edwards, Mark Evan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food insecurity and risk of nutrition insecurity among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants in Rhode Island and Connecticut, USA

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports
Objective: To 1) describe food insecurity and risk of nutrition insecurity (henceforth nutrition insecurity); 2) test the associations between perceived food access and neighborhood environment and food and nutrition insecurity, and differences in these ...
Vanessa M. Oddo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hunger and Food Insecurity in Nairobi's Slums: An assessment using IRT models' [PDF]

open access: yes
Although linked to poverty as conditions reflecting inadequate access to resources to obtain food, issues such as hunger and food insecurity have seldom been recognized as important in urban settings.
FAYE Ousmane   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Talking with Their Mouths Half Full: food insecurity in the Hamilton community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
While the sociology of food has attended to what symbolisms of presence can tell us about society, the same attention has not been attributed to symbolisms of absence.
McNeill, Kellie Irene Blair
core  

Association Between Food Insecurity and Type of Food Pantry Visited Among Individuals in Atlanta, Georgia [PDF]

open access: yes
Objective: To assess the association between food insecurity and type of food pantry visited. Design: Secondary analysis of cross-sectional study. Participants: N=685 adults visiting a choice (n=347) or non-choice pantry (n=338) in Atlanta, GA.
Dennis, Kendall
core   +1 more source

Food insecurity among refugee families in East London: results of a pilot assessment. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
OBJECTIVE: To identify child hunger and examine its association with family factors, receipt of benefits, housing conditions and social support among recently arrived refugee families with young children.
Sellen, Daniel W   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food insecurity and childhood obesity: beyond categorical and linear representations [PDF]

open access: yes
Previous work on the relationship between food insecurity and childhood overweight has lead to a wide array of answers – some have found a positive relationship, others no relationship, and still others a negative relationship.
Kuku, Oluyemisi   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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