OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity is an important public health problem facing children in the
United States. Although a number of previous studies suggest that food insecurity has …

METHODS: This is a retrospective study of 7959 nationally representative US children (aged
1–17 years) in the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Households with food insecurity …

Recently, I was in Detroit, Michigan, and visited Eastern Market, one of the oldest and largest
year-round markets in the United States. It was summer, and the stalls were overflowing with …

Objectives. We examined long-term patterns of household food insecurity in children from
kindergarten through eighth grade and the association between those patterns and …

The US Household Food Security Scale, developed with federal support for use in national
surveys, is an effective research tool. This study uses these new measures to examine …

Objective To investigate rates and severity of child and adult food insecurity (the inability to
access enough food in a socially acceptable way for every day of the year) in households …

OBJECTIVES. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between household food security
status and developmental risk in young children, after controlling for potential confounding …

Almost fifty million people are food insecure in the United States, which makes food
insecurity one of the nation's leading health and nutrition issues. We examine recent …

Importance Household food insecurity has been associated with mental health problems in
children independently of family income and other confounders. It is unclear whether food …

ABSTRACT The US Food Security Scale (USFSS) measures household and child food
insecurity (CFI) separately. Our goal was to determine whether CFI increases risks posed by …