Identifying and Addressing Childhood Food Insecurity in Healthcare and Community Settings

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Food Insecurity

   • Kofi Essel, Kelly A. Courts

   Pages 1-21

3. Impacting Food Insecurity Through the Use of Screening Tools and Training

   • Kofi Essel, Baraka D. Floyd, Melissa Klein

   Pages 23-41

4. Scope of Interventions to Address Food Insecurity

   • Janine S. Bruce, Deepak Palakshappa, Hans B. Kersten

   Pages 43-67

5. Building and Evaluating the Impact of Food Insecurity-Focused Clinical-Community Partnerships on Patients and Populations

   • Adrienne W. Henize, Melissa Klein, Andrew F. Beck

   Pages 69-87

6. Developing an Action Plan to Fight Food Insecurity

   • Baraka D. Floyd, Deepak Palakshappa, Melissa Klein

   Pages 89-103

7. Back Matter

   Pages 105-108

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This salient resource offers clinicians a comprehensive multi-tiered framework for identifying, addressing, and reducing food insecurity among children and their families. Reinforcing the importance of food insecurity as a key social determinant of health, this monograph reviews the epidemiology and presents in-depth guidelines for screening for food insecurity and hunger. Recommendations for screening in a busy clinical setting as well as the strengths and limitations of widely-used instruments are discussed. The monograph also outlines a variety of clinic-level interventions, potential community-based resources, and opportunities for clinical-community partnerships to improve families’ food access and security. Further, contributors provide workable plans for large-scale advocacy through greater engagement with professional and community resources as well as policymakers.  The monograph concludes with an outline of the critical steps to implement a food insecurity screeningprocess and the key components to train the next generation of provider-advocates.

 

Included in the coverage:

 

•          Epidemiology and pathophysiology of food insecurity
  
•         Screening tools and training
  
•          Scope of interventions to address food insecurity
  
•         Creation and evaluation of the impact of food insecurity-focused clinical-community partnerships on patients and populations
  
•          Development of an action plan to fight food insecurity
  

Identifying and Addressing Childhood Food Insecurity in Healthcare and Community Settings will find an engaged audience among physicians and other clinicians who want to address food insecurity in their healthcare and/or community setting. Institutions that are starting to address social determinants of health, including food insecurity, will find guidance on screening tools, processes and evaluation of impact.                                                                                                            

 

• child nutrition
• child health
• pediatrics
• food insecurity in American families
• epidemiology
• screening and intervention
• community partnerships
• population health outcomes
• food insecurity programs
• social determinants of health
• quality improvement (QI)
• population health techniques
• family medicine
• health inequities
• health disparities
• hunger
• poverty
• sustainability
• hunger-free healthcare center
• hunger-free communities

• St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

  Hans B. Kersten

• Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, USA

  Andrew F. Beck, Melissa Klein

Hans B. Kersten, MD, is professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine and medical director of the Grow Clinic at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Andrew Beck, MD, MPH, is assistant professor of Clinical Pediatrics-Affiliated in the Department of Pediatrics and attending pediatrician in the Divisions of General & Community Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, USA. 


Melissa Klein, MD, MEd, is associate professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics and co-director of the Masters of Education (MEd) program at University of Cincinnati in Ohio, USA. Dr. Klein also is director of Education Section and director of General Pediatric Master Educator Fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. 

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