MODULE 12: Food and Nutrition (Last Review 5/9/24)
Module Presentation
Learning Objectives
Define food insecurity
Recognize how food insecurity impacts health and ED patients
Learn how to identify food insecurity and address it in ED care
Literature Review
Textbooks
Social Emergency Medicine: Principles & Practice. Chapter 13. Food Insecurity: Hidden Problems, Real Remedies by Eric W Fleegler, Deborah A. Frank & Marisa B Brett-Fleegler -- Provides background on food insecurity concepts, contribution to health and application to Emergency Medicine.
Articles
The prevalence and effects of hunger in an emergency department patient population (10.1111/j.1553-2712.1999.tb00112.x)
Cross-sectional Analysis of Food Insecurity and Frequent Emergency Department Use (10.5811/WESTJEM.2021.3.50981)
Emergency Department Experience with Novel Electronic Medical Record Order for Referral to Food Resources (10.5811/westjem.2017.12.35211)
Applying a Health Access Framework to Understand and Address Food Insecurity (10.3390/healthcare10020380)
Food Insecurity and Health Care Expenditures in the United States, 2011-2013 (10.1111/1475-6773.12730)
Supplemental Materials
Sim cases/Case studies
Small group/Simulation Activity
Videos and Visuals
Feeding America. Illuminating Intersections: Hunger and Health -- 3 minute overview of food insecurity and the contribution to health.
Key Websites
USDA Food Insecurity Website -- Most recent national and state data for food insecurity rates in total and by various population groups (households with children, racial/ethnic groups, etc). Includes access to graphs and charts to update slides or for most recent data.
Feeding America -- US hunger relief organizational to end hunger in US by supporting research, advocacy, community building and dissemination of knowledge and resources related to food insecurity.
Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) -- National non-profit organization working to end hunger and food insecurity through research and advocacy.
CDC. State-Level and County-Level Estimates of Health Care Costs Associated with Food Insecurity
Assessments