Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Characteristics and Children's Food Insecurity

Autor/inn/en	Kimbro, Rachel T.; Denney, Justin T.; Panchang, Sarita
Titel	Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Characteristics and Children's Food Insecurity
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Research on Children, 3 (2012) 1, Artikel 8 (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2155-5834
Schlagwörter	Neighborhoods; Environmental Influences; Child Health; Well Being; Food; Hunger; Children; Census Figures; Kindergarten; Grade 3; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Poverty; Immigrants; English (Second Language); At Risk Persons; Longitudinal Studies; Surveys; Individual Characteristics; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Whites; Socioeconomic Status; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Lebensmittel; Child; Kind; Kinder; Volkszählung; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Armut; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Risikogruppe; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; White; Weißer; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status
Abstract	A growing body of work documents the influence of neighborhood environments on child health and well-being. Food insecurity is likely linked to neighborhood characteristics via mechanisms of social disadvantage, including access to and availability of healthy foods and the social cohesion of neighbors. In this paper, we utilize restricted, geo-coded data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which allows us to link individual children with their neighborhood's census characteristics, to assess how the neighborhoods of food secure and food insecure children differ at both the kindergarten level and in third grade. The average food insecure child lives in a neighborhood with a higher proportion of black and Hispanic residents, a higher proportion of residents living in poverty, and a higher proportion of foreign-born and linguistically isolated residents. After accounting for individual and household-level characteristics, children living in neighborhoods with a high proportion of Hispanic and foreign-born residents have a significantly increased risk of food insecurity compared to children living in neighborhoods which are predominantly white and have high socioeconomic status. We argue that interventions which take neighborhood context into account may be most efficacious for curbing child food insecurity. (As Provided).
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