Food security and child malnutrition : the impact on health, growth, and well-being / edited by Areej Hassan, MD, MPH.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The food security continuum : a novel tool for understanding food insecurity as a range of experiences / Sheryl L. Hendriks -- Usda definition of food security in the U.S. / United States Department of Agriculture -- Household food (in)security and nutritional status of urban poor children aged 6 to 23 months in Kenya / Maurice Mutisya, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Moses Waithanji Ngware, and Caroline W. Kabiru -- Household food access and child malnutrition : results from the eight-country MAL-ED study / Stephanie Psaki, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Tahmeed Ahmed, Shamsir Ahmed, Pascal Bessong, Munirul Islam, Sushil John, Margaret Kosek, Aldo Lima, Cebisa Nesamvuni, Prakash Shrestha, Erling Svensen, Monica Mcgrath, Stephanie Richard, Jessica Seidman, Laura Caulfield, Mark Miller, and William Checkley -- Food insecurity and linear growth of adolescents in Jimma Zone, southwest Ethiopia / Tefera Belachew, David Lindstrom, Craig Hadley, Abebe Gebremariam, Wondwosen Kasahun, and Patrick Kolsteren -- Factors associated with stunting among children according to the level of food insecurity in the household : a cross-sectional study in a rural community of southeastern Kenya / Chisa Shinsugi, Masaki Matsumura, Mohamed Karama, Junichi Tanaka, Mwatasa Changoma, and Satoshi Kaneko -- Beyond nutrition : hunger and its impact on the health of young Canadians / William Pickett, Valerie Michaelson, and Colleen Davison -- Food insecurity and children's mental health : a prospective birth cohort study / Maria Melchior, Jean-Francois Chastang, Bruno Falissard, Cedric Galera, Richard E. Tremblay, Sylvana M. Cote, and Michel Boivin -- Household food insecurity and childhood overweight in Jamaica and Quebec : a gender-based analysis / Lise Dubois, Damion Francis, Daniel Burnier, Fabiola Tatone-Tokuda, Manon Girard, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Kristin Fox, and Rainford Wilks -- Community perspectives on food insecurity and obesity : focus groups with caregivers of Metis and off-reserve First Nations children / Jasmin Bhawra, Martin J. Cooke, Rhona Hanning, Piotr Wilk, and Shelley L. H. Gonneville -- Household hardships, public programs, and their associations with the health and development of very young children : insights from Children's Health Watch / Katherine M. Joyce, Amanda Breen, Stephanie Ettinger De Cuba, John T. Cook, Kathleen W. Barrett, Grace Paik, Natasha Rishi, Bianca Pullen, Ashley Schiffmiller, and Deborah A. Frank.