Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Public Health, Poverty Reduction, Food Bank

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Elysée Nouvet

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Why is food insecurity a public health issue? (january 25, 2018) Food i(cid:374)se(cid:272)urity: not k(cid:374)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g if you"re goi(cid:374)g to eat, (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t li(cid:448)e healthy a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e life: growing up poor without food makes you weak and more likely you and your children will remain poor. Food insecurity isn"t a lack of food but a lack of income. Canadian facts: 13% or 4 million food insecure, not counting those on reserves and homeless, no reduction in last 20 years, public health emergency, 1/10 people, 1/6 children are food insecure. Health implications: depends on duration, severity, and which nutrients missing in diet, nutritional deficiencies. It did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork - the food (cid:449)as o(cid:374)ly goi(cid:374)g to people (cid:449)ho had (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey a(cid:374)d people (cid:449)ho (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t afford food (cid:271)efore the sta(cid:373)ps still (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t afford the sta(cid:373)ps. New and improved supplemental nutrition assistant program launched 2008: 42 million participants (2016, many states have work requirement after 3 months, different states can introduce different rules surrounding the food assistance program.