Food Security
Activity
Active Large Group Session
Active Large Group Session
Food security refers to “when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”.
Curriculum Block
Medical Foundation 3 / Part 3 / Week 1
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Activity Objectives
- Describe food security as a social and biological determinant of health.
- Describe food access as a determinant of health using geo-spatial and epidemiological methods to see if disparities exist across our distributed sites.
- Use case-based practical exercises to analyze the interactions between income, access, nutritional status and knowledge using epidemiological data.
Assessments
Concept Application Exercise (CAE)
Tags
Basic Sciences
Epidemiology
Nutrition
Curriculum Block
Medical Foundation 3
Part 3
Week 1
Curriculum Week
Part 3
Week 1
Discipline
Clinical epidemiology
Nutritional Sciences
MCC Presentations
Concepts of Health and Its Determinants
Interventions at the Population Level
McMaster Professional Competency
Population Health, Health Equity and Determinants of Health
McMaster Program Competencies
2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations
3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care
5.6 Demonstrate a critical understanding of personal, professional and institutional power and privilege and utilize anti-oppressive practice to create patient experiences where marginalization and oppression are minimized.
6.2 Identify aspects of the healthcare system that serve as barriers and enablers of providing healthcare to and optimizing the health of patients and the population
6.3 Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems that support patient- and population-centred care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable
6.8 Participate in identifying system-level gaps and errors and, where appropriate, identify, implement or participate in potential system-level solutions
MeSH
Diet, Food, and Nutrition [G07.203]
Food Insecurity [J01.576.423.750.688]
Food Supply [J01.576.423.750]
Health Equity [N05.300.430.383]
Health Status Disparities [N06.850.505.400.425.675]
Malnutrition [C18.654.521]
Nutritional Requirements [G07.203.650.620]
Poverty [I01.880.853.996.535]
Public Health [N01.400.550]
Social Determinants of Health [N01.400.675]
Socioeconomic Factors [N01.824]
Starvation [C18.654.521.750]
