Food insecurity ✔️Ans - limited ability to acquire adequate food in socially acceptable ways
food waste & overpopulation ✔️Ans
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pests, drought flood ✔️Ans - Natural causes of famine
Economic Research Service ✔️Ans - assists in giving research & analysis on food security issues in developing countries
food deserts (439 of texbook) ✔️Ans - characterized by availability, accessibility of healthful foods
urban farmers market, supporting public policy to reduce costs of fresh foods ✔️Ans - Examples of public health strategies to reduce food deserts
Food Security Survey Module ✔️Ans - diagnostic tool that focuses on financial limitations to adequate nutrition/sufficiency of food
Undernutrition including chronically hungry ✔️Ans - situation where person consumes alot of calories but without adequate nutrients
Child Food Security Survey Module use: ✔️Ans - can determine if child experiencing hunger at home
Household food security status ✔️Ans - outcome measure to examine public's ability to secure adequate food
food security ✔️Ans - People's ability to access sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.
Food Security Module does what ✔️Ans - Measures sufficiency of food & very low food security requires intervention
Low food security is ✔️Ans - reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet
An effect of Natl Nutrition Monitoring & Related research Act of 1990 ✔️Ans - developed standardized questionnaires for measuring household food security status
can water be labelled organic? ✔️Ans - no
hunger ✔️Ans - the uneasy or painful sensation caused by lack of food
Common recurrent reason people return to ED ✔️Ans - pts cannot afford meds & goes without meds
Food insecurity factors ✔️Ans - poor nutrition, trouble obtaining food, obesity, lower cognitive & academic performance & poor health status
SNAP ✔️Ans - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-helps low income families who have trouble affording food
Meals on Wheels ✔️Ans - a community-supported nutrition program in which prepared meals are delivered to elders in their homes, usually by volunteers
WIC ✔️Ans - a special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children, sponsored by the USDA; also help women get prenatal care
Barrier to nutritional education & strategy to overcoming this barrier ✔️Ans - Illiteracy; screening for problems w/ written materials & providing verbal or picture based instruction
Elderly Nutrition Program ✔️Ans - program teaching older adults how to shop, plan, & prep nutritious meals & conduct HTN assessments
Benefits of meals in group setting ✔️Ans - Provides socialization to elderly [Show Less]