A5059451078- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Infant Nutrition and Health
- Global Health Care Issues
- Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
- Dental Education, Practice, Research
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Pregnancy and Medication Impact
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Infant Health and Development
- Social Issues and Policies
- dental development and anomalies
Boston Medical Center
2007-2023
Boston University
2013-2023
University School
2010-2019
Hennepin County Medical Center
2011-2017
University of Minnesota
2017
University of Maryland, Baltimore
2008-2016
Boston Children's Hospital
2016
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
2008-2016
Drexel University
2008-2016
Boston University Academy
2013
OBJECTIVES: To develop a brief screen to identify families at risk for food insecurity (FI) and evaluate the sensitivity, specificity, convergent validity of screen. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Caregivers children (age: birth through 3 years) from 7 urban medical centers completed US Department Agriculture 18-item Household Food Security Survey (HFSS), reports child health, hospitalizations in their lifetime, developmental risk. Children were weighed measured. An FI was developed on basis...
In this study, we evaluated the relationship between household food security status and developmental risk in young children, after controlling for potential confounding variables.The Children's Sentinel Nutritional Assessment Program interviewed (in English, Spanish, or Somali) 2010 caregivers from low-income households with children 4 to 36 months of age, at 5 pediatric clinic/emergency department sites Arkansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania). Interviews included...
We investigated the association between housing insecurity and health of very young children.Between 1998 2007, we interviewed 22,069 low-income caregivers with children younger than 3 years who were seen in 7 US urban medical centers. assessed food insecurity, child status, developmental risk, weight, for each child's household. Our indicators crowding (> 2 people/bedroom or>1 family/residence) multiple moves (≥ within previous year).After adjusting covariates, was associated household...
Objective. To examine the association of positive report on a maternal depression screen (PDS) with loss or reduction welfare support and foods stamps, household food insecurity, child health measures among children aged ≤36 months at 6 urban hospitals clinics. Methods. A convenience sample 5306 mothers, whose <36 old were being seen in hospital general clinics emergency departments (EDs) medical centers 5 states Washington, District Columbia, interviewed from January 1, 2000 until...
Breastfeeding initiation rates were compared at Boston Medical Center before (1995), during (1998), and after (1999) Baby-Friendly policies in place. Center, an inner-city teaching hospital that provides care primarily to poor, minority, immigrant families, achieved status 1999.Two hundred complete medical records, randomly selected by a computer, reviewed from each of 3 years: 1995, 1998, 1999. Infants excluded for records missing feeding data, human immunodeficiency virus-positive parent,...
OBJECTIVES. Public funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program has never been sufficient to serve more than a small minority of income-eligible households. not increased with recent rapidly rising energy costs, harsh winter conditions, or higher child poverty rates. Although national performance goal is increase percentage recipient households having ≥1 member ≤5 years age, association households' receipt indicators well-being in young children evaluated previously. The current...
We investigated the risk of household food insecurity and reported fair or poor health among very young children who were US citizens whose mothers immigrants compared with those had been born in United States.Data obtained from 19,275 (7216 whom immigrants) interviewed hospital-based settings between 1998 2005 as part Children's Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program. examined whether mediated association immigrant status child relation to length stay States.The was higher recent than...
OBJECTIVE. Household energy security has not been measured empirically or related to child health and development but is an emerging concern for clinicians researchers as costs increase. The objectives of this study were develop a clinical indicator household assess associations with food security, health, developmental risk in children <36 months age. METHODS. A cross-sectional that used survey surveillance data was conducted. Caregivers interviewed emergency departments primary care...
The goals were to generate a cumulative hardship index and evaluate its association with the well-being of children 4 36 months age without private health insurance.Cross-sectional surveys linked anthropometric measures medical record review at 5 urban centers (July 1, 2004, December 31, 2007). Cumulative scores ranged from 0 6, food, housing, energy each contributing possible score (secure), 1 (moderately insecure), or 2 (severely insecure) indicating no (score 0), moderate (scores 1-3),...
Food insecurity and pediatric obesity affect young children. We examine how food relates to obesity, underweight, stunting, health, development among children <4 years of age.Caregivers participated in a cross-sectional survey at medical centers 5 US cities. Inclusion criteria were age <48 months. Exclusion severely ill or injured private health insurance. The Household Security Survey Module defined 3 exposure groups: secure, household insecure child insecure. Dependent measures (weight-age...
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps working families meet their nutritional needs. Families whose earned income increases in a given month may have SNAP benefits abruptly reduced or cut off the following month. Using sentinel sample data from 2007–15 for with children younger than age four, we investigated how benefit reductions cutoffs resulting increased were related to economic hardships (food and energy insecurity, unstable housing, forgone health and/or dental...
Context. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is the largest food supplement program in United States, serving almost 7 500 000 participants 2002. Because a grant program, rather than an entitlement Congress not mandated to allocate funds serve all eligible participants. Little known about effects of WIC on infant growth, health, security. Objective. To examine associations between participation indicators underweight, overweight, length,...
To determine whether peer counselors impacted breastfeeding duration among premature infants in an urban population.This was a randomized controlled clinical trial.The trial conducted the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Boston Medical Center, inner-city teaching hospital with approximately 2000 births per year.One hundred eight mother-infant pairs were enrolled between 2001 and 2004. Pairs eligible if mother intended to breastfeed 1997 guidelines from American Academy of Pediatrics infant 26...
<h3>Background</h3> A critical shortage of affordable housing for low-income families continues in the United States. Children households that are food insecure at high risk adverse nutritional and health outcomes thus may be more vulnerable to economic pressures exerted by costs. Only about one fourth eligible receive a federally financed subsidy. Few studies have examined effects such subsidies on status children. <h3>Objective</h3> To examine relationship between receiving among young...