Coping Behaviours and the concept of Time Poverty: a review of perceived social and health outcomes of food insecurity on women and children

2021 ◽

pp. 097206342110652

Author(s):

Steven Masvaure

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Conventional Medicine ◽

Health Seeking Behaviour ◽

Health Seeking ◽

Child Health Outcomes ◽

Women And Children ◽

Religious Sects ◽

And Child Health ◽

Apostolic Church

Religious rights as enshrined in the Zimbabwean constitution are sacrosanct, however, when church doctrine bars followers from seeking modern medical care, they start infringing on health rights especially of the ‘lesser beings’ the women and children who are members of these religious sects. The ‘lesser beings’ are bearing the brunt of high maternal and neonatal mortality as they depend on unsafe traditional birth attendants and unconventional medicine. This study is ethnographic and presents lessons learnt from a programme aiming to improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes among the Apostolic Church of Johanne Marange members in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe. The findings show that despite the stringent doctrine and barriers placed on apostolic members who want to access conventional medicine, the women and children are using clandestine approaches to circumvent the doctrine and barriers. This article argues that a barrage of unconventional and conventional approaches can lead to changes in health-seeking behaviour of the apostolic church and ultimately maternal and child health outcomes. The article argues that the intransigence of the apostolic can only be overcome by covert approaches to providing health services and save lives.

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Negative health outcomes associated with food insecurity status in the United States of America: A systematic review of peer-reviewed studies

10.31232/osf.io/uk9xw ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Daniel Jose Arenas ◽

Sara Zhou ◽

Arthur Thomas ◽

Jici Wang ◽

Gilberto Vila Arroyo ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Systematic Review ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

United States Of America ◽

Underserved Populations ◽

The United States ◽

Health Providers ◽

Populations At Risk ◽

Negative Health Outcomes

Introduction: Social determinants of health, such as food security, are an important target for health providers, particularly in the care of patients from underserved populations, including the uninsured and socially marginalized. Preliminary research has shown that food insecurity status (FIS) is associated with negative health outcomes.Objective: We aim to present a concise, yet comprehensive resource that lists the health outcomes associated with FIS. This guide is meant to provide innovative health providers with the tools needed to justify the importance of using FIS screening and treatment as a preventive medicine intervention.Methods: We conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed manuscripts that studied FIS in the United States of America (USA) and at least one health outcome. We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus and had multiple reviewers examine each abstract and manuscript. We only retained peer-reviewed studies that contained USA data, directly measured FIS, and directly compared FIS to a health outcome.Results: The initial search yielded 1,817 manuscripts. After screening abstracts for duplicates and inclusion criteria, a total of 117 manuscripts were retained and fully examined. Several manuscripts showed significant association between FIS and neurologic, cardiac, endocrine, and pulmonary health outcomes. Studies in the USA population show robust associations between FIS and poor mental health (including depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, impaired cognitive functioning, and epilepsy), metabolic syndrome, hyperlipidemia, greater risk for bone fracture in children, higher risk of end-stage renal disease in patients with chronic kidney disease, self-reported poor health, and higher mortality in patients with the human immunodeficiency virus. Though other literature reviews show positive associations between FIS and health outcomes such as diabetes, body mass index, and hypertension, our systematic review showed mixed results.Conclusions: FIS leaves underserved populations at risk for negative health outcomes. More research should be done to examine the effects of FIS alleviation as a preventative medicine intervention.

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“So Warlike a Disposition”

Fit for War ◽

10.5744/florida/9781683400059.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mary Elizabeth Fitts

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

American Indian ◽

Military Operations ◽

Archaeological Data ◽

Women And Children ◽

Early Eighteenth Century ◽

State Of Affairs ◽

English Colonies

This chapter examines how interactions with Carolina influenced Catawba militarism. In the early eighteenth century, Catawba warriors began to serve as ethnic soldiers, auxiliaries for the English colonies. These exploits provided an important venue for men to achieve notoriety, but triggered cycles of retaliation with other American Indian polities. To facilitate their military operations, defend their homes, and access the main trading path, the Catawba clustered their towns near Nation Ford. This military orientation contributed to the geopolitical persistence of the Catawba Nation, but also led to a precarious state of affairs. The ways in which Catawba men, women, and children experienced these conditions are considered, along with evidence for an episode of food insecurity in the 1750s. Militarism also encouraged the incorporation of refugees into Catawba communities, but little is known about how this process actually took place. The concepts of coalescence and ethnogenesis are used to frame questions later addressed through the examination of archaeological data in chapters 6 and 7.

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Pesticide Contaminated Drinking Water and Health Effects on Pregnant Women and Children

Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies - Handbook of Research on the Adverse Effects of Pesticide Pollution in Aquatic Ecosystems ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-6111-8.ch007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 123-136

Author(s):

Sanjeevi Ramakrishnan ◽

Anuradha Jayaraman

Keyword(s):

Drinking Water ◽

High Risk ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Pregnant Women ◽

Health Effects ◽

Pesticide Residues ◽

Contaminated Water ◽

Adverse Health Outcomes ◽

Contaminated Drinking Water ◽

Women And Children

In the recent years, pesticide research and regulatory efforts have focused on the prevention of acute health effects from pesticide poisonings and pesticide residues on foods, but more attention is being given to the deleterious chronic health effects. Children and pregnant women's exposure to contaminated water in particular are at high risk for subsequent adverse health outcomes. The chapter summaries the health effects of water contamination.

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23. Food Insecurity and Health Outcomes in Young Adults

Journal of Adolescent Health ◽

10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.11.026 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 66 (2) ◽

pp. S12-S13

Author(s):

Jason M. Nagata ◽

Kartika Palar ◽

Holly C. Gooding ◽

Andrea K. Garber ◽

Henry Whittle ◽

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Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Food Insecurity

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Facilitators and Barriers to Access to Pediatric Medical Services in a Community Hospital

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health ◽

10.1177/2150132720904518 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

pp. 215013272090451 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Qiyun Shi ◽

Fiorella Castillo ◽

Kusum Viswanathan ◽

Fernanda Kupferman ◽

Joy C. MacDermid

Keyword(s):

Health Outcomes ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Medical Care ◽

Parental Support ◽

Missed Appointments ◽

Social Inequity ◽

Healthy Behaviors ◽

Barriers To Access ◽

Missed Visits ◽

The Impact

Background: Missed medical appointments decrease continuity of medical care, waste resources, and may affect health outcomes. We examined the factors associated with missed children’s supervision visits in Eastern Brooklyn, NY, USA. Methods: We surveyed guardians whose children received routine medical care at four pediatric clinics. Participants filled out a questionnaire that queried: demographics, food security, recent relocation, parental support of healthy behaviors, and length of knowing provider. Preexisting disease(s) and missed visits were retrieved from medical records. Regression analyses were used to determine factors that were associated with missing medical appointments. Results: Among 213 families, 33% faced food insecurity and 16.4% reported moving within the past 12 months. Forty percent of children missed at least 1 visit. Food insecurity (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 2.3, 95% confidence interval [CI 1.0% to 5.2%) and recent relocation (aOR 1.8, 95% CI 1.1-3.4 were associated with missed health supervision visits, whereas greater parental healthy behaviors (aOR 0.5, 95% CI 0.3-0.9) and longer length of knowing provider (aOR 0.8, 95% CI 0.7-1.0) were associated with fewer missed appointments. Conclusion: This study indicates that social inequity may contribute to poor adherence to medical appointments through multiple mechanisms, including food insecurity, lack of social stability, and parental health behaviors. Multidimensional proactive prevention, and reactive tolerance should be considered as opportunities to mitigate the impact of social inequity on health outcomes.

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Household Food Insecurity and the Association with Cumulative Biological Risk among Lower-Income Adults: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 2007–2010

Nutrients ◽

10.3390/nu12051517 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 1517 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Cindy W. Leung ◽

Megan S. Zhou

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Risk Score ◽

Risk Scores ◽

Household Food Security ◽

Household Food Insecurity ◽

Biological Risk ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

Household Food

Household food insecurity has been associated with adverse health outcomes; however, the mechanisms underlying these associations are not well-defined. Using data from 5005 adults from the 2007–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), we examined associations between household food insecurity and cumulative biological risk, a measure of the body’s physiological response to chronic stress. Household food security was assessed using the 18-item Household Food Security Survey Module. Marginal food security refers to 1–2 positive responses, and food insecurity refers to ≥3 positive responses. The cumulative biological risk scores were calculated based on the distributions of ten biomarkers from the cardiovascular, metabolic, and immune systems. Elevated biological risk was defined as a risk score of ≥3. Multivariable regression models were used to examine associations between food security and cumulative biological risk scores, adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics. After multivariable adjustment, food insecurity was associated with a 0.14-unit higher cumulative biological risk score (95% CI 0.05–0.22, p-trend = 0.003) and higher odds of elevated biological risk (OR 1.20, 95% CI 1.05–1.37, p-trend = 0.003). These associations differed by gender. Among women, food insecurity was associated with 0.30-unit higher cumulative biological risk score (95% CI 0.14–0.45, p-trend = 0.0004) and higher odds of elevated biological risk (OR 1.61, 95% CI 1.29–2.00, p-trend < 0.0001). These associations were not observed in men. Women experiencing food insecurity demonstrated elevated levels of biological risk. These findings support the hypothesis that food insecurity may be associated with women’s chronic health outcomes through the pathway of chronic stress. Further research is needed to understand why these associations were not observed in men.

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Everyday Indigenous resurgence during COVID-19: a social media situation report

AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples ◽

10.1177/1177180120968156 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 403-405

Author(s):

Jeff Corntassel ◽

Robynne Edgar ◽

Renée Monchalin ◽

Carey Newman

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Lived Experiences ◽

Adverse Health ◽

Adverse Health Outcomes ◽

Indigenous Nations ◽

The Usa ◽

Indigenous Land

For Indigenous Nations on Turtle Island (Canada and the USA), the onset of COVID-19 has exacerbated food insecurity and adverse health outcomes. This situation report examines ways that Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island have met the challenges of the pandemic in their communities and their daily practices of community resurgence through social media. Drawing on the lived experiences of four Indigenous land-based practitioners, we found that social media can offer new forms of connection for Indigenous peoples relating to our foods, lands, waterways, languages, and our living histories.

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