Second Food Security Measurement and Research Conference, Volume II: Papers

by Margaret Andrews and Mark Prell

The Second Food Security Measurement and Research Conference (February 23-24, 1999) was co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service and Economic Research Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Center for Health Statistics. The conference was part of an ongoing program of Federal food security research, the goal of which has been to establish a stable measurement strategy to assess annually the food security status of the U.S. population. This report is Volume II of a two-volume set and contains a set of research papers that conference participants prepared to provide further detail on the content and findings of some research presented at the conference.

Keywords: food security, hunger, food assistance, nutrition monitoring

In this publication...

• Entire Report
• Abstract
• Contents
• Overview
• Methodological Findings and Early Conclusions Based on the 1995, 1996, and 1997 Food Security Data
• Estimating the Prevalence of Children's Hunger From the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement
• Lessons Learned From an Assessment of the Individual-Level Core Food Security Module
• Dietary Factors Associated with Reported Food Insecurity
• Nutrition and Health Perspectives on Establishing a Food Security Research Agenda: What Can We Learn From the Past to Establish a Framework For the Future?
• The Dynamic Determinants of Food Insufficiency
• Food Insufficiency and Children's Health Status in the United States: Findings From NHANESIII