Medical Economics June 29, 2022
ACP makes six recommendations, including medical screenings, bolstering SNAP food benefits.
Chronic hunger and its effects have become a national health problem that physicians and lawmakers must deal with, according to the American College of Physicians (ACP).
The organization has published a new position paper outlining six recommendations to tackle food insecurity that leads to nutrition insecurity, which in turn affects diet-related conditions such as diabetes, obesity, coronary artery disease, certain types of cancer and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
In medicine, there is a growing understanding that social drivers of health affect the health of patients. That includes food insecurity, estimated to affect about 13.8 million households with 38.3 million people across the United States in 2019 and 2020.
“Food insecurity is...
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