Assuring Access to Health Promoting Foods for Everybody What are the consequences if we don't? How can we reduce disp

1. Assuring Access to Health Promoting Foods for Everybody What are the consequences if we don't?  How can we reduce disparities?

2. Nutrition Security • The provision of an environment that encourages and motivates society to make food choices consistent with short and long term good health.

3. Food Security • Assess by all people at all times to sufficient food for an active and healthy life. Food security includes at a minimum: the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.

4. Food Insecurity • a household had limited or uncertain availability of food, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (i.e., without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other unusual coping strategies).

5. Hunger • The uneasy or painful sensation caused by a lack of food. • Involuntary hunger that results from not being able to afford enough food • The recurrent and involuntary lack of access to food • May produce malnutrition over time.

6. History of the Food Security Measurement Project

8. Washington State Data

9. Washington State, 1999-2001 • Food Insecure without hunger – 12.5%

10. Food Insecurity with Hunger

19. Mortality Rate Adapted from Smith and Shipley. Soc Sci Med, 32; 1991 Gradient exists at all levels of the SEP hierarchy

20. Washington Mortality and EducationWA Death Certificate 1997 – 1999, SPS