Session 4 Flashcards
A limited ability to acquire nutritionally adequate foods in socially acceptable ways
food insecurity
Contributing factors to global hunger
food waste and overpopulation
Natural causes of famine
pests, drought, floods
Economic Research Service
Assists in providing research and analysis on food security issues in developing countries
A situation where a person consumes many calories but without adequate nutrition
Undernutrition
Household food security status
An outcome measure to examine the public’s ability to secure adequate food
All people have access to adequate food at all times for an active and healthy life
Food security
Measures sufficiency of food and very low food security requires intervention
Food Security Survey Model
Low food security is characterized by
Reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet
One effect of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990
development of standardized questionnaires for measuring household food security status
SNAP
Helps low-income families acquire food
WIC
Women, infants, children program
Program that teaches older adults to shop, plan, and prepare nutritious meals
Elderly Nutrition Program
ALSO CONDUCTS HTN ASSESSMENTS
a bulging can of food might contain
botulism
Infections commonly disseminated by ingestion (esp fecal-oral)
cholera, shigellosis