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1
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18 questions, differentiating adults’ and children’s experiences over last 12 months:

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worry not having enough food, reliance on low cost foods, not able afford balanced meals, skip meals, cut size of meals, not have enough to eat, adult lost wt, not eating for whole day

2
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____ million Canadian households experienced food insecurity 2012

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1.7

3
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in children, food insecurity associated with multi negative health outcomes:

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poor development/learning, impaired disease management, ^ likelihood developing asthma/depression/chronic disease

4
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in adults, food insecurity associated with these negative outcomes:

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poor mental health, ^ infectious/non-infectious disease, poor disease management, ^ odds negative disease outcomes, ^ mortality

5
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^ odds of food insecurity associated with:

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reliance on income support, renter, presence of child, one adult, aboriginal, less education

6
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income + ____ = household food insecurity

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assets

7
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some policy interventions that improve resources of low income households?

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improved benefits, Universal Child Care Benefit, ^ social assistance rates, old age security and guaranteed income supplement, ontario child benefit