Food insecurity (FI) is a serious public health concern in economically developed countries, mainly due to unequal resource distribution. Identifying social vulnerability factors (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEstablishing relationships between diet and human health is an active and critical area of research, and this Special Issue, "Association Between Nutrition, Diet Quality, Dietary Patterns, and Human Health and Diseases", is a collection of research highlighting classic and emerging themes in this area [...
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: This study aimed to identify key health condition correlates of food insecurity in Australia using nationally representative data.
Methods: This cross-sectional study used data from a large, nationally representative Australian survey that included questions on the dynamics of families and households, income, wealth, welfare, labour market activity (including unemployment and joblessness), life satisfaction and wellbeing. Binary logistic regression models of eight items of food insecurity measured the association between 17 health conditions and food insecurity while controlling for various demographic and socioeconomic variables.
The transportation of freight by land, sea and air underpins the complex network of global trade in physical commodities. Greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation are a significant component of global emissions and are predicted to grow in coming decades. However, the inclusion of freight transport in emissions accounts and environmental impact studies is often incomplete.
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