Identifying and Addressing Childhood Food Insecurity in Healthcare and Community Settings

by Melissa Klein, Hans B Kersten, Andrew F. Beck

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319760475
• ISBN13: 9783319760476
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"