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Nutrition and Vulnerable Groups
Amanda Devine and Tanya Lawlis
2019
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Food insecurity is a complex ‘wicked’ problem that results from a range of unstable and uncertain physical, social, cultural and economic factors that limits access to nutritious food. Globally, 800 million people are under-nourished, and around 2 billion are overweight/obese or have micronutrient deficiency. These populations are largely positioned in developing countries where disease burden is high and impacts health budgets and productivity. Similarly developed countries, cities and neighbourhoods are experiencing a greater emergence of vulnerable populations. This is in part explained by the change in the food production and manufacturing, the retraction in economic climates, the increase in food price, and in some regions reduced food availability and access.Vulnerable groups include but are not limited to migrant populations, Indigenous people, elderly, pregnant women, those with disability, homeless, young children and youth. Poor nutrition at significant periods of growth and development and during life impact long term health outcomes increasing non-communicable disease prevalence, health cost and reducing economic productivity.
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Keywords
- abdominal obesity
- adiposity markers
- adolescent health
- animal-source food
- BMI-for-age
- Body Image
- Breastfeeding
- Challenges
- charitable food sector
- child stunting
- Children
- co-design
- consumption of fruits and vegetables
- dietary patterns
- dietary quality
- double burden of malnutrition
- emergency food assistance
- energy density
- fat mass
- feeding practices
- food assistance
- food insecurity
- food literacy
- food pantry
- food poverty
- Food security
- fruit and vegetables
- HFIAS
- in-depth interview
- Indonesia
- infant feeding
- Knowledge
- Lebanon
- Livestock
- low-income
- low-income population
- low-income undergraduate students
- lunch
- Malaysia
- Malnutrition
- metabolic syndrome
- n/a
- Nutrition
- nutrition education
- nutrition security
- Obesity
- Orang Asli
- Palestine
- Pediatrics
- place-based
- popular restaurant
- Primary Health Care
- Public Health
- refugee
- Refugees
- resource-poor settings
- rural children
- rural populations
- school intervention
- school performance
- Self-efficacy
- Self-esteem
- social cognitive theory
- Socioeconomics
- Student Assistance Program
- sub-Saharan Africa
- Tanzania
- tertiary education
- Training
- Undernutrition
- village chickens
- vulnerable groups
- welfare home
- Women
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03921-121-0Editions
