The roots of children's hunger today may stretch back, in part, to the past childhood trauma of their caregivers. Evidence amassed over the past two decades has demonstrated that stress and deprivation during childhood have ...
Feb 3, 2015
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The summer holidays are supposed to be a happy and carefree time for school children but the reality is they are often stressful for children from low income families.
Jun 8, 2018
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A major study at the University of Copenhagen reports that food quality is affected when people's food budgets are constrained, as per the definition of insecure or very insecure access to food used in international research. ...
Jan 11, 2019
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Weeks after a stay in the hospital, your bill arrives and you can barely believe the amount due. How is this even possible if you have good health insurance and, more importantly, how will you pay it?
Sep 19, 2022
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Low socioeconomic families—and particularly women—experienced increased financial hardship, food insecurity, domestic violence and mental health challenges during COVID-19 lockdown measures in Bangladesh, a new research ...
Aug 25, 2020
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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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When schools closed during the first year of the pandemic, an immediate and potentially devastating problem surfaced: How would millions of children in struggling families get the school meals many of them depended on?
Sep 9, 2022
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The 2022 World AIDS Day theme is Equalize. The reason for this focus is that HIV reflects economic and social inequity. People with low socio-economic status are worst affected by the epidemic. Also, the worst impacts of ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Low-income families have a high awareness of healthy diets but can't afford good quality and nutritious food, new research shows.
Feb 23, 2021
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A new study shows that food insecurity in pregnant women being treated for opioid use disorder may be associated with increased risk for their infants receiving pharmacologic treatment for neonatal abstinence syndrome. Published ...
Nov 13, 2018
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