Chapter 13: Food Insecurity
Low income, requiring social assistance, unemployment/unfair workers compensation, renters, lower education, Indigenous households, post-secondary students, and lone mothers, are more likely to experience food insecurity. What is the name that categorizes these elements?
What are risk factors?
Raphael (2008) states that Food Security, alongside 13 other factors, were the focus of a Canadian conference that concluded these factors to have the largest influences on one’s health and wellbeing.
What is a Social Determinant of Health?
A tax-free monthly payment made to eligible families to assist with the cost of raising children administered by the Canada Revenue Agency.
What is the Canadian Child Care Benefit (CCB)?
This policy recommendation suggests that governments should focus on social and community-based supports to help those struggling with food insecurity.
What is an integrated approach?
A not-for-profit organization located in North Bay that offers daily drop in meals, access to a community garden space, cooking education, food rescue, and volunteer opportunities.
What is The Gathering Place?
There are two types of food insecurity, each defined by the circumstances in which they occur.
What is Short-Term and Long-Term Food Insecurity?
This survey that began in 1994 allowed for monitoring of long-term health consequences.
What is the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)?
This income replacement provides financial support to its contributors in the event of retirement, disability, or death to all of Canada except for Quebec (they have their own version of this support).
What is the Canada Pension Plan (CCP)?
29% of this population has poor psychosocial health, which impacts academic performance, due to food insecurity.
What are university students?
This community support serves residents of North Bay who need food once every 30 days and provides between one to three days' worth of food.
What is the Food Bank?
There are three key pillars of Food Stability
What is Availability, Access, and Utilization?
This survey composed of 18 questions, 10 for adults and 8 for children, determines the severity of food insecurity of Canadian individuals.
What is the Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM)?
Bill C-56, The Affordable Housing and Groceries Act was passed in December of 2023 to remove GST on this kind of living accommodations to stabilize food prices for Canadians.
What is new rental housing?
Treating health problems related to food insecurity and connecting patients to community resources are examples of what nursing implication?
What is Collaboration?
This program provides children across Canada with daily access for a nutritious breakfast at school.
What is the Breakfast Club of Canada?
There are four domains that influence food insecurity.
What is Quantity, Quality, Psychological Impact, and Social Acceptability?
According to the Nunavik Study, children that were determined moderately food insecure have these differences compared to their peers.
What is shorter stature and anemic?
This federal policy outlines the following actions that the Canadian government is to take between 2019 and 2024: Increase access to healthy foods, make Canadian food the top choice home and abroad, support food security in Northern and Indigenous communities, and reduce food waste.
What is The Food Policy for Canada?
Low income, poor physical and mental health, and isolation are the key determinants of food insecurity for this population.
What are older adults?
These two programs provide income supplementation specifically for older adults in Canada.
What is the Old Age Security Program (OASP) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement Program (GISP)?
25% of Canadians struggling with food insecurity engage in this.
What is skipping meals and/or eating less?
Episodic food insecurity is relatively harmless, but chronic food insecurity is linked to what?
What are chronic diseases and nutritional deficiencies?
This funding supports food security within equity deserving groups, particularly Indigenous and Black communities. It aims to increase the availability and accessibility of local, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for these communities.
What is the Local Food Infrastructure Fund (LFIF)?
Food insecurity has four long-term effects (reduced learning and productivity, mental health, chronic disease, obesity) on this population.
What are children?
This term is used to describe an intervention that provides temporary relief but does not solve the cause of the problem.
What is a Band-Aid solution?