Approximately 20% of all children in the United States live in poverty, which exists in rural,
urban, and suburban areas. Thus, all child health clinicians need to be familiar with the …

Poverty affects a child's development and educational outcomes beginning in the earliest
years of life, both directly and indirectly through mediated, moderated, and transactional …

Previous research has demonstrated that the burden of household food insecurity is
disproportionately high among racial/ethnic minority groups, yet no peer-reviewed studies …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of a clinic-based screening and referral system (Well
Child Care, Evaluation, Community Resources, Advocacy, Referral, Education [WE CARE]) …

Access to food is essential to optimal development and function in children and adults. Food
security, food insecurity, and hunger have been defined and a US Food Security Scale was …

Objective The association between diet quality, dietary behavior and health-related quality
of life has been mostly examined in children and adolescents with specific chronic diseases …

The home food environment can be conceptualized as overlap** interactive domains
composed of built and natural, sociocultural, political and economic, micro-level and macro …

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

Food insecurity is a serious public health problem associated with poor cognitive and
emotional development in children and with depression and poor health in adults. Despite …

CONTEXT. The prevalence of childhood overweight status is increasing. Some have
suggested that childhood overweight is associated with food insecurity, defined as limited or …