Health
Scenes of childhood hunger left lasting impression on AHA's Empowered to Serve scholar
While growing up in the Philippines, Lady Dorothy Elli witnessed childhood hunger and poverty that left her with lasting impressions.
Oct 13, 2020
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Health
Pandemic threatens food security for many college students
When university presidents were surveyed in spring of 2020 about what they felt were the most pressing concerns of COVID-19, college students going hungry didn't rank very high.
Oct 9, 2020
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Diabetes
Housing instability linked with poor diabetes control, suggests study
Moving once a year or more is linked with poor glycaemic (blood sugar) control in people with type 2 diabetes, according to a cross-sectional study examining the relationship between housing insecurity and diabetes control ...
Sep 25, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Job security, finances strongly related to increased anxiety during pandemic
In mid-April 2020, the national unemployment rate reached 14.7 percent—the highest since the Great Depression. Forty-one million American workers filed for unemployment between February and May of 2020.
Sep 24, 2020
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Health
Food insecurity expands beyond low-income Angelenos during the pandemic
More than one in four Los Angeles County households experienced at least one instance of food insecurity—a lack of access to affordable and nutritious food—from April through July, according to a new study directed by ...
Sep 24, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
More neurotic, less agreeable, less conscientious: How job insecurity shapes your personality
With unemployment at its highest rate in three decades, almost a million Australians are experiencing the anxiety of being out of work. Even more are underemployed, and more still holding on to jobs for now, not knowing if ...
Sep 23, 2020
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Health
Nearly 20 percent of Americans don't have enough to eat
More than 18 percent of U.S. adults do not know whether they will have enough to eat from day to day, and the numbers are worse for Hispanics, Blacks, people with obesity, and women, a new report shows.
Sep 22, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Americans sick with COVID disproportionately poor, minorities, uninsured and food insecure
As the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was receding in mid-May, some 1.3 million working-age adults reported being home sick with symptoms they attributed to the coronavirus. A new analysis finds that, compared to those ...
Sep 11, 2020
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Health
Looming wave of evictions, housing instability pose threat to health
With unemployment rates hovering at or near double digits, millions of people are at risk for eviction or foreclosure. And a growing body of research suggests the effects go beyond financial, taking a toll on both physical ...
Sep 10, 2020
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Health
Malnutrition among a hunter-gatherer group
The diets of hunter-gatherers are changing at a fast pace, as in the contemporary world, they are increasingly being deprived of their access to land and natural resources and urged to adapt to sedentary lifestyle. An interdisciplinary ...
Sep 9, 2020
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