ArticleMaternal and child health journal2017
Social Cohesion and Food Insecurity: Insights from the Geographic Research on Wellbeing (GROW) Study.
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- Social Vulnerability and Child Food Insecurity in Developed Countries: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Pooled it
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- Cultivating Health: The Role of Urban Greening in Supporting Baltimore's Youth.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Association between parent-perceived neighborhood support on food insufficiency and public benefit participation among US children.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
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- Association between social cohesion and food insecurity among adults living in a healthcare region in southern Brazil.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Determinants of food insecurity among adults residing in peri-urban municipal settings in Flanders, Belgium.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Perspective: Nutrition Health Disparities Framework: A Model to Advance Health Equity.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Food insecurity, dietary quality, and the role of social network support and barriers among immigrant Latino adults in New York City.Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition · 2024Article
- [Association between community violence and the risk of food insecurity in a capital city in Southern Brazil].Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
- Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Obesity in the United States.Endocrine and metabolic science · 2023Article
- Food Insecurity and Stress Among Rural Residents in South Carolina: The Moderating Influences of Household Characteristics, Neighborhood Social Environment and Food Environment.Journal of community health · 2023Article
- Examination of an Intergenerational Summer Meal Program for Children and Older Adults.Journal of community health · 2022Article
- The effect of maternal food insecurity transitions on housing insecurity in a population-based sample of mothers of young children.AIMS public health · 2022Article
- Development of three new multidimensional measures to assess household food insecurity resilience in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Mediating roles of psychological factors and physical and social environments between socioeconomic status and dietary behaviors among African Americans with overweight or obesity.Research in nursing & health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Objectives Food insecurity in the United States is a stubborn public health issue, affecting more than one in five households with children and disproportionately impacting racial and ethnic minority women and their children. Past research and policy has focused on household predictors of food insecurity, but neglected broader factors, such as perceived neighborhood social cohesion, that might protect those most vulnerable to food insecurity. Methods We use a racially and ethnically diverse data set from the Geographic Research on Wellbeing study (N = 2847) of women and their young children in California to investigate whether social cohesion influences food insecurity and whether it moderates the relationship between race/ethnicity and food insecurity. Results We find that lower levels of perceived residential neighborhood social cohesion associate with higher odds of food insecurity even after considering important household socioeconomic factors. In addition, our results suggest that social cohesion is most relevant for reducing the risk of food insecurity among racial and ethnic minority mothers. For example, the probability of food insecurity for immigrant Latina mothers is nearly 0.40 in neighborhoods where mothers perceive little to no cohesion and less than 0.10 in neighborhoods where mothers perceive high cohesion. Conclusions for Practice Higher levels of neighborhood perceived social cohesion are protective against food insecurity in households with children and especially so for racial and ethnic minority households who are at a heightened risk of food insecurity. Supporting programs that focus on building closer knit communities may be a key to reducing food insecurity overall and for reducing disparities in food insecurity by race and ethnicity.
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