Objective: To determine the relationship between household food insecurity status over a 12-
month period and adults' use of publicly funded health care services in Ontario for mental …

Background Household food insecurity is a potent social determinant of health and health
care costs in Canada, but understanding of the social and economic conditions that underlie …

To mitigate the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the federal
government has implemented several financial assistance programs, including …

Food banks have become the first line of response to problems of hunger and food
insecurity in affluent nations. Although originating in the USA, food banks are now well …

Food insecurity, inadequate access to food due to financial constraints, affects 17.3% of
Canadian children, with serious health repercussions. Capitalizing on the geo-temporal …

As concerns about food insecurity in high income countries grow, there is a need to better
understand the impact of social policy decisions on this problem. In Canada, provincial …

Background: Food insecurity research has been mainly examined among young people.
The root causes of food insecurity are closely linked to poverty, and social policies and …

Background Household food insecurity is a potent marker of material deprivation with
adverse health consequences. Studies have repeatedly found a strong, independent …

Objectives To understand the differential vulnerability to household food insecurity of the
Black population as compared with white counterparts in Canada. Methods Using data for …

BACKGROUND: Household food insecurity, a measure of income-related problems of food
access, is a pressing public health problem in Canada's North, especially in Nunavut. We …