Patient Engagement March 23, 2023
Food security can affect overall patient well-being, plus diet-related chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
Food security is perhaps one of the most commonly discussed social determinants of health, with the medical and public health industries standing poised to address it.
According to Healthy People 2030, food insecurity is “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.”
Food insecurity has two different levels of severity, per the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Low food insecurity indicates limited access to healthy, nutritious, or high-quality food. Low food insecurity is not always associated with hunger.
High food insecurity, however, is usually associated with hunger. High food insecurity is associated with low food intake and...
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