Nutritional and Food Insecurity: Exploring Structural and Individual Risk Factors Impacting a Global Crisis
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 23040
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutritional and food insecurity; health disparities; homelessness; place & health; mental health & at-risk behavior
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A growing body of research has established a strong association between food insecurity and poor nutrition. Research has found that persons experiencing high levels of food insecurity are often the same ones at higher risk for developing diet-related diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. However, considerable debate remains regarding the direction future research should take on these subjects. For example, although the definition of food security includes consistent access to affordable, sufficient, and nutritious food, academics and activists (e.g., José Andrés) have recently critiqued the concept for overemphasizing the quantity of food while overlooking the importance of its nutritional content. Conversely, others argue that the majority of food insecurity research has overly emphasized the nutritional composition of food—replicating what Scrinis has termed nutritionism (2008)—at the expense of its sociocultural elements.
We have been asked to edit a Special Issue for the journal Nutrients that examines the intersectional, multidisciplinary complexity of nutritional and food insecurity issues. We are interested in developing a strong collection of articles diverse in both theoretical and methodological approaches. Manuscript submissions are welcome from the social sciences, public health, nutrition studies, etc., and we encourage submissions from around the globe. We are particularly interested in manuscripts that explore the causes and consequences of these insecurities either separately or combined. In addition, we encourage manuscripts that identify and engage with important debates in the field and provide analyses which can offer insight/empirical support for a position within that debate. Finally, we welcome work that highlights innovative areas of inquiry, evaluates practical solutions for addressing food or nutritional insecurity, or generally explores the nexus of health and insecurities across the life-course.
We will prioritize work that includes theoretically informed empirical analysis. However, we will also consider commentaries or theoretical works that have been carefully crafted and engage with critical debates within the field of interest for this Special Issue.
Dr. Kevin Fitzpatrick
Dr. Don E. Willis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutritional insecurity
- food insecurity
- health risks
- risk factors
- syndemic
- causes and consequences
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