Public health, food security, and hunger

2022 ◽  
pp. 57-84
Author(s):  
Basanta Kumara Behera ◽  
Ram Prasad ◽  
Shyambhavee Behera
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Health Food

The Global Threat of (Re)emerging Diseases

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Arrizabalaga
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Threat

Since the 1980s the world has witnessed the global emergence of new epidemic infections (HIV/AIDS being the most dramatic so far), and the reappearance of known infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, malaria, and syphilis, that had seemed for some time to be under control. In the field of public health, these events have led to the designation of a new nosological category: emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Such diseases pose a growing threat to the hegemony of biomedicine, raising many questions about the adequacy of biomedical discourse and practices to meet the global challenge of infectious diseases. This chapter analyzes the construction of this new nosological category and examines the implications of (re)emerging diseases for public health, food security, and human development on a worldwide scale.

Malnutrition, Public Health, and Ethics

2019 ◽  
pp. 570-584
Author(s):  
Jessica Fanzo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Micronutrient Deficiencies ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Nutritious Food ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Society Today

A major challenge for society today is how to secure and provide plentiful, healthy, and nutritious food for all in an environmentally sustainable and safe manner, while also addressing the multiple burdens of undernutrition, overweight and obesity, stunting and wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies, particularly for the most vulnerable. There are considerable ethical questions and trade-offs that arise when attempting to address this challenge, centered around integrating nutrition into the food security paradigm. This chapter attempts to highlight three key ethical challenges: the prioritization of key actions to address the multiple burdens of malnutrition, intergenerational justice issues of nutrition-impacted epigenetics, and the consequences of people’s diet choices, not only for humanity but also for the planet.

scholarly journals Veterinarians and Public Health: Food Control in the Professionalization of Veterinarians

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. e1806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Tove Elvbakken
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
The State ◽  
Food Control ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Food Inspection ◽  
Core Practice ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

This article explores the role of food control in the professionalization of veterinarians in Norway. Veterinarians became engaged in public health through food control and market inspection, which were the responsibility of Norway’s city boards of health from the 1860s. Food inspection served a double purpose: to ensure honest trade and to maintain the safety of food. I argue that food control, which was associated with cities’ efforts to secure public health and order, was important to the legitimacy of the veterinarian profession. This activity is not what one today sees as a core practice of veterinarians, which is the prevention and curing of animal sickness. Exploring boundary activities at the fringes of a profession, and especially activity connected to the city and the state, may shed light on the more general sources of professional influence and legitimacy in the Norwegian profession state.

scholarly journals Fat-soluble vitamins A and E and health disparities in a cohort of pregnant women at delivery

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corrine Hanson ◽  
Marina Verdi Schumacher ◽  
Elizabeth Lyden ◽  
Dejun Su ◽  
Jeremy Furtado ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Vitamin E ◽  
Vitamin A ◽  
Serum Levels ◽  
Food Desert ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Lower Serum

AbstractThe objective of the present study was to evaluate intakes and serum levels of vitamin A, vitamin E, and related compounds in a cohort of maternal–infant pairs in the Midwestern USA in relation to measures of health disparities. Concentrations of carotenoids and tocopherols in maternal serum were measured using HPLC and measures of socio-economic status, including food security and food desert residence, were obtained in 180 mothers upon admission to a Midwestern Academic Medical Center labour and delivery unit. The Kruskal–Wallis and independent-samples t tests were used to compare measures between groups; logistic regression models were used to adjust for relevant confounders. P < 0·05 was considered statistically significant. The odds of vitamin A insufficiency/deficiency were 2·17 times higher for non-whites when compared with whites (95 % CI 1·16, 4·05; P = 0·01) after adjustment for relevant confounders. Similarly, the odds of being vitamin E deficient were 3·52 times higher for non-whites (95 % CI 1·51, 8·10; P = 0·003). Those with public health insurance had lower serum lutein concentrations compared with those with private health insurance (P = 0·05), and living in a food desert was associated with lower serum concentrations of β-carotene (P = 0·02), after adjustment for confounders. Subjects with low/marginal food security had higher serum levels of lutein and β-cryptoxanthin compared with those with high food security (P = 0·004 and 0·02 for lutein and β-cryptoxanthin). Diet quality may be a public health concern in economically disadvantaged populations of industrialised societies leading to nutritional disadvantages as well.

Taxifolin retards D-galactose-induced aging process through inhibiting Nrf2-mediated oxidative stress and regulating gut microbiota in mice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinglong Liu ◽  
Yingchun Zhao ◽  
Hongyan Zhu ◽  
Ming Wu ◽  
Yinan Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Metabolic Complications

Aging and aging-related metabolic complications are globalproblems that seriously threaten public health. Taxifolin (TAX) is a novel health food, which has been widely proved to have a variety of biological...

Sustainable diets

2011 ◽  
pp. 379-388
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Health Nutrition ◽  
Individual Behaviour ◽  
The Public ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Sustainability and nutrition 380 Sustainable development 382 Food security 383 Climate change and obesity 384 Useful websites and further reading 388 The public health nutrition field has identified a need to encompass the inter-relationship of man with his environment (The Giessen Declaration, 2005). Ecological public health nutrition places nutrition within its wider structural settings including the political, physical, socio-cultural and economic environment that influence individual behaviour and health. As a consequence, it includes the impact of what is eaten on the natural environment as well as the impact of environmental and climate change on all components of food security, i.e. on what food is available, accessible, utilizable and stable (...

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