Identifying and Addressing Childhood Food Insecurity in Healthcare and Community Settings

Hans B. Kersten, Andrew F. Beck, Melissa Klein (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 108 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-76047-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Epidemiology and pathophysiology of food insecurity.- Training providers to screen and provide resources to address food insecurity.- Scope of interventions to address food insecurity.- Developing and evaluating community partnerships.- Developing an Action Plan to Fight Food Insecurity.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Child Health
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Public Health
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 108 p. 11 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	189 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
Schlagworte	Child Health • child nutrition • Community partnerships • epidemiology • Family Medicine • food insecurity in American families • food insecurity programs • Health disparities • Health inequities • Hunger • hunger-free communities • hunger-free healthcare center • Pediatrics • population health outcomes • population health techniques • Poverty • quality improvement (QI) • screening and intervention • social determinants of health • sustainability
ISBN-10	3-319-76047-5 / 3319760475
ISBN-13	978-3-319-76047-6 / 9783319760476
Zustand	Neuware