Health groups hunger for prompt label change

A Label Change for Farm Credit

Those persons employed in this nation's agribusiness industry can ill afford to ignore the balance sheet for U.S. agriculture. Preliminary estimates for 1983 suggest that production agriculture currently functions on a base of debt capital totaling $215 billion. While total assets employed have, since 1980, remained almost constant at about $1,000 billion, our farmers' equity position has actua...

Hunger: its impact on children's health and mental health.

OBJECTIVE Hunger, with its adverse consequences for children, continues to be an important national problem. Previous studies that document the deleterious effects of hunger among children cannot distinguish child from family hunger and do not take into account some critical environmental, maternal, and child variables that may influence child outcomes. This study examines the independent contr...

Fighting Hunger Together: A Case of Women Farmers’ Participation in Women Groups in Mwala Division, Kenya

Food security remains a major challenge for most rural households in Kenya especially those in arid and semi arid areas. Women play a crucial role as primary food producers and custodians of household food security. They however face many constraints in their endeavor to secure food for their households. Women, lack access to extension education, land and credit and these challenges are exacerb...

Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies; Comment on “Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups”

This commentary discusses the interesting and surprising findings by Hagen and colleagues, focusing on the role of the public health coordinator as a Health in All Policies (HiAP) tool. The original article finds a negative association between the employment of public health coordinators in Norwegian municipalities and consideration of a fair distribution of social and economic resources betwee...

Groups urge warning label for medical devices containing toxic chemical.