Introduction to the Us Food System - Public Health, Environment, and Equity

Informationen zum Autor RONI NEFF, PHD, EDITOR, is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and directs the Food System Sustainability Program at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). She has worked in a wide variety of food system and public health research, policy, and practice roles throughout her career. THE JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR A LIVABLE FUTURE (CLF) is an interdisciplinary academic center focused on the interrelationships between food and public health. Klappentext A public health approach to the US food systemIntroduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging textbook that offers students an overview of today's US food system, with particular focus on the food system's interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society. Using a classroom-friendly approach, the text covers the core content of the food system and provides evidence-based perspectives reflecting the tremendous breadth of issues and ideas important to understanding today's US food system. The book is rich with illustrative examples, case studies, activities, and discussion questions.The textbook is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), and builds upon the Center's educational mission to examine the complex interrelationships between diet, food production, environment, and human health to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public, and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment, and the ability to sustain life for future generations.Issues covered in Introduction to the US Food System include food insecurity, social justice, community and worker health concerns, food marketing, nutrition, resource depletion, and ecological degradation.* Presents concepts on the foundations of the US food system, crop production, food system economics, processing and packaging, consumption and overconsumption, and the environmental impacts of food* Examines the political factors that influence food and how it is produced* Ideal for students and professionals in many fields, including public health, nutritional science, nursing, medicine, environment, policy, business, and social science, among othersIntroduction to the US Food System presents a broad view of today's US food system in all its complexity and provides opportunities for students to examine the food system's stickiest problems and think critically about solutions. Zusammenfassung A public health approach to the US food system Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging textbook that offers students an overview of today's US food system, with particular focus on the food system's interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables ix Introduction xvii Acknowledgments xxv About the Editor xxvi Author Affiliations xxvii About the Center for a Livable Future xxxiii Chapter 1 Food Systems 1 Roni A. Neff and Robert S. Lawrence The Food System as a System 2 Focus 1.1. Complex Adaptive Systems 5 Focus 1.2. Food in the Food System 6 Public Health 8 The US Food System: An Overview 9 Perspective 1.1. When Your Boat Rocks, You Want Resilience Not Efficiency 12 Focus 1.3. Principles of a Healthy, Sustainable Food System 14 PART 1 OUTCOMES 23 Chapter 2 Food System Public Health Effects 25 Brent F. Kim and Jennifer L.Wilkins Dietary Health 26 Perspective 2.1. Gut Bacteria, Diets and Inflammation 28 Occupational and Environmental Health 33 Focus 2.1. Pesticides and Child...

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables ix
 
Introduction xvii
 
Acknowledgments xxv
 
About the Editor xxvi
 
Author Affiliations xxvii
 
About the Center for a Livable Future xxxiii
 
Chapter 1 Food Systems 1
Roni A. Neff and Robert S. Lawrence
 
The Food System as a System 2
 
Focus 1.1. Complex Adaptive Systems 5
 
Focus 1.2. Food in the Food System 6
 
Public Health 8
 
The US Food System: An Overview 9
 
Perspective 1.1. When Your Boat Rocks, You Want Resilience Not Efficiency 12
 
Focus 1.3. Principles of a Healthy, Sustainable Food System 14
 
PART 1 OUTCOMES 23
 
Chapter 2 Food System Public Health Effects 25
Brent F. Kim and Jennifer L.Wilkins
 
Dietary Health 26
 
Perspective 2.1. Gut Bacteria, Diets and Inflammation 28
 
Occupational and Environmental Health 33
 
Focus 2.1. Pesticides and Children's Health 35
 
Focus 2.2. Food System Workers at Risk 39
 
Food Safety 40
 
Focus 2.3. Bisphenol-A: A Ubiquitous Food System Contaminant 42
 
Chapter 3 Ecological Threats to and from Food Systems 51
Molly D. Anderson
 
Status of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services Essential to Food Systems 53
 
Focus 3.1. Assessing Ecological Integrity of Food Systems 54
 
Focus 3.2. Farmland Protection 57
 
Focus 3.3. Virtual Water and Food Systems 60
 
Processes Through Which Ecological Health isThreatened 64
 
Moving Toward More Environmentally Sustainable Practices 68
 
Perspective 3.1. A Farmer'sThoughts on Defining Sustainable Farming 70
 
Perspective 3.2. Consumer Perceptions of Environmentally Sustainable Foods 73
 
Chapter 4 The Food System and Health Inequities 79
Roni A. Neff, Anne M. Palmer, Shawn E. McKenzie, and Robert S. Lawrence
 
Health Inequities and Food Systems in the United States 81
 
Perspective 4.1. Foodies on a Mission 84
 
Elaborating the Pathways 85
 
Perspective 4.2. Realizing Justice in Local Food Systems 90
 
Perspective 4.3. The People Who Touch Your Food 93
 
Perspective 4.4. Contract Chicken Farming 94
 
Perspective 4.5. Food, Equity, and Health: Making the Connections in Public Health Practice 97
 
Chapter 5 Public Health Implications of Household Food Insecurity 107
Mariana Chilton, Amanda Breen, and Jenny Rabinowich
 
Definition, Distribution, and Determinants of Food Insecurity 108
 
Perspective 5.1. Witnesses to Hunger: Participation byThose Who Know Poverty and Hunger Firsthand 112
 
Nutrition Assistance Programs 114
 
Perspective 5.2. The Wrong Path Forward: Restricting Food Choices in SNAP 118
 
Perspective 5.3. A Defense of Excluding Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value from SNAP 119
 
Perspective 5.4. The Public Health Case for Universal Free School Meals 121
 
Focus 5.1. What Do People Do When They Are Worried about Feeding Their Families? 124
 
Broader Perspectives 125
 
Chapter 6 Community Food Security 135
Anne M. Palmer,Wei-Ting Chen, and MarkWinne
 
History and Evolution of CFS 137
 
Focus 6.1. Food Hubs: Supporting Healthy Farms, Healthy People, Healthy Economy 139
 
Measuring Community Food Security 141
 
CFS Policies at Multiple Levels 144
 
How Does CFS Change Happen? 146
 
Focus 6.2. Case Study: Iowa Food Systems Council, a Second-Generation Food Policy Council 147
 
CFS and Public Health 148
 
Challenges for the CFS Field 148
 
Perspective 6.1. The City That Ended Hunger 150
 
PART 2 DRIVERS OF THE FOOD SYSTEM 157
 
Chapter 7 Food

Product details

• Authors: R Neff, Roni Neff
• Assisted by: Ron Neff (Editor), Roni Neff (Editor), Neff Roni (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.2014
• EAN: 9781118063385
• ISBN: 978-1-118-06338-5
• No. of pages: 576
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Public Health, United States of America, USA, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Public health and preventive medicine, Food security and supply, Health & Social Care, Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen, Food Processing, Production & Manufacture, Food Science & Technology, Lebensmittelforschung u. -technologie, Herstellung u. Verarbeitung von Lebensmitteln, Gesundheitswesen / Umwelt u. Arbeitsplatz, Environmental & Occupational Health