Planning a WIC Research Agenda Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
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5 Food Insecurity and Hunger
5 Food Insecurity and Hunger
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Cook Future Context and Environment To help set the stage for his remarks on a WIC research agenda, Cook identified factors that may influence food security over the coming years. One of the most important factors, according to Cook, will be whether the United States ever develops a meaningful response to global climate change.
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, the extent to which global food production responds to demand, and the implementation of health care reform in the United States. From 1999 until 2007, as can be seen in Figure 5-1, the proportion of U.S.
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How to include oral health screening, fluoride treatment, dental sealant application, and other basic oral-health examination and referrals as part of WIC services, considering that poor oral health is a silent epidemic, especially in the pediatric population;
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PERSPECTIVES ON WIC RESEARCH Presenter: Edward A Frongillo, Jr. When the National Nutrition Monitoring System was started, the view was that adverse effects of food insecurity occurred primarily as a function of poor dietary and nutritional status.
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The program decreased domestic violence dramatically, improved food security, improved the economic situation, and reduced social constraints. In this example, he said, a reduction in food insecurity accounted for about one-third of the substantial reduction in the distress (depression)
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RESPONSE Discussant: James Weill WIC's Purpose Many people believe that the fundamental purpose of WIC is to reduce food insecurity that results from poverty, both because it should be unacceptable in our affluent society and because that strategy improves maternal and child health. Others believe WIC should be framed mainly as a public health program, in part because the severe hunger and malnutrition seen in the late 1960s and early 1970s are now uncommon.
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Other potential research topics include examining the effects of the food package on access to healthful foods in food deserts2 and examining 2 Food deserts are areas (typically rural or inner city areas) in which residents lack access to affordable healthful foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low fat milk.
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Large sample sizes of low-income people will be needed to examine the influence of effect modifiers on the relationship between food inse curity and body weight. SUMMARY OF SUGGESTED RESEARCH TOPICS The research suggestions made during this session focused on ways to increase participation in WIC; to improve its effectiveness and the measurement of effectiveness; to examine relationships among WIC, food insecurity, and health outcomes; and to examine relationships among WIC, Medicaid, SNAP, food insecurity, and health outcomes.
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2005. Household Food Security in the united States, 00.
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