Food insecurity and disease : prevalence, policy, and politics / edited by Areej Hassan.

Oakville, ON, Canada : Apple Academic Press, Inc., 2017.

xxii, 258 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

Definitions of food security / United States Department of Agriculture -- Food insecurity in adults with mood disorders : prevalence estimates and associations with nutritional and psychological health / Karen M. Davidson and Bonnie J. Kaplan -- Household food insecurity and mental distress among pregnant women in southwestern Ethiopia : a cross sectional study design / Mulusew G. Jebena [and 14 others] -- Is food insecurity associated with HIV risk? Cross-sectional evidence from sexually active women in Brazil / Alexander C. Tsai, Kristin J. Hung, and Sheri D. Weiser -- Food insecurity is a barrier to prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services in Zimbabwe : a cross-sectional study / Sandra I. McCoy [and 5 others] -- A pre-post pilot study of peer nutritional counseling and food insecurity and nutritional outcomes among antiretroviral therapy patients in Honduras / Kathryn P. Derose [and 6 others] -- Relationship between food insecurity and mortality among HIV-positive injection drug users receiving antiretroviral therapy in British Columbia, Canada / Aranka Anema [and 5 others] -- Shamba maisha : pilot agricultural intervention for food security and HIV health outcomes in Kenya : design, methods, baseline results and process evaluation of a cluster-randomized controlled trial / Craig R. Cohen [and 11 others] -- Challenges of diabetes self-management in adults affected by food insecurity in a large urban centre of Ontario, Canada / Justine Chan, Margaret DeMelo, Jacqui Gingras, and Enza Gucciardi -- Children's very low food security is associated with increased dietary intakes in energy, fat, and added sugar among Mexican-origin children (6-11 y) in Texas border Colonias / Joseph R. Sharkey, Courtney Nalty, Cassandra M. Johnson, and Wesley R. Dean -- Obesity prevention and national food security : a food systems approach / Lila Finney Rutten, Amy Lazarus Yaroch, Heather Patrick, and Mary Story -- Food sovereignty : power, gender, and the right to food / Rajeev C. Patel -- Big food, food systems, and global health / David Stuckler and Marion Nestle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.