{"id":321,"date":"2009-08-19T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.vcu.edu\/vcusochealth\/2009\/08\/19\/another-measure-of-food-insecu\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:18:45","slug":"another-measure-of-food-insecu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/another-measure-of-food-insecu\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Measure of Food Insecurity Among Children (Children’s HealthWatch, August 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Children’s HealthWatch monitors food insecurity through pediatric interviews with the families of children up to age 3 who use emergency rooms and clinics in Boston, Baltimore, Little Rock, Minneapolis, and <\/font><\/span>Philadelphia.  <\/span>Their sample includes data on 32,000 children and their families, with 4,500 added each year.  <\/span>Food insecurity is measured using the U.S. Food Security Scale.  <\/span>Data collected in the Children’s <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

HealthWatch sample shows an increase in food insecurity among families with young children from 18.5% in 2007 to 22.6% in 2008.  <\/span>They also find that children who are food insecure are 30% more likely to be hospitalized, 90% more likely to be in fair or poor health, and nearly twice as likely to have iron deficiency anemia.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.childrenshealthwatch.org\/page.php?id=165<\/a><\/span><\/pre>\n
<\/span><\/a>http:\/\/www.childrenshealthwatch.org\/upload\/resource\/FoodInsecurityBrief6_09<\/a><\/span>.pdf<\/font><\/u><\/span><\/pre>\n
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Data collected in the Children’s HealthWatch sample shows an increase in food insecurity among families with young children from 18.5% in 2007 to 22.6% in 2008.  They also find that children who are food insecure are 30% more likely to be hospitalized, 90% more likely to be in fair or poor health, and nearly twice as likely to have iron deficiency anemia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,25,67,102],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-security","tag-children","tag-childrens-healthwatch","tag-food-insecurity","tag-hunger"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}