The Addressing Food and Nutrition Security in Developed Countries Special Issue is a collection of papers from researchers in counties with developed economies who are responding to increasing prevalence of food insecurity. Food insecurity is relatively hidden, and the real extent of the problem is likely to be underestimated in many of these countries. Novel methods to estimate the prevalence of food insecurity in the face of no routine measurement are presented. Population surveys highlight adverse mental health outcomes and new and emerging subgroups that are experiencing food insecurity. Understanding the factors associated with food insecurity and how people cope is extremely important when considering how best to address the problem. Readers can become familiar with the lived experience of food insecurity in some countries-essential intelligence for effective policy and interventions. The extent of food banking operations and the nature of the charitable response in some countries is also described. Country-specific research highlights the importance of understanding the cultural and external environmental context. The influence the cost of food and budgetary tools on diet and food insecurity suggests opportunities for intervention. Researchers calls for social protection and high-quality dignified responses to address this complex public health problem.
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diet affordability California Health Interview Survey Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deservingness subsidy mental health remote welfare state incentive cost of a healthy diet access to food monitoring and surveillance INFORMAS children qualitative disadvantages poverty food insecurity food service social support reference budgets determinants non-communicable disease Canadian adults monitoring diet prices inequality food affordability physical health food equality Finland diet-related chronic disease older people women Pacific diets Newstart allowance charitable food services Indigenous social assistance food system Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Healthy Diets ASAP tool prevalence policy food charity sex secondary data food assistance developed countries social enterprise models low income M?ori diets household food poverty social assistance payments food price community store Hurricane Katrina stressful life events fiscal policy food stress low-to-middle income trauma-informed rural experience stressors Indigenous population research affordability social determinants social security charity obesity prevention Sustainable Development Goals obesity nutrition environment coping strategies welfare recipients Food-based dietary guidelines food surveys experiences fruit and vegetables food aid recipient hunger nutrition food supply mixed methodology research nutrition policy household food insecurity food prices Asian Americans intervention English language use values Scotland acculturation disaster voluntary failure family health surveillance diet food banks scoping review ageing rural communities path diagram Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population food pricing homeless families food and nutrition security food bank co-creation urban food security food policy depression diet price food aid