Food Insecurity in Canada by Andy

Marina - Public Policy

2018-09-11 17:22:44 UTC

There are 3 graphs in the paper. The first graph shows food insecurity by household income. There is the evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey that people with lower income have high rates of food insecurity. And the second graph shows that social assistance recipients have the highest rates of food insecurity. This is why the government should design better programs for the recipients to meet their basic needs. There is the example that poverty reduction strategies decreased food insecurity. According to the third graph, the prevalence of food insecurity among the people on social assistance was reduced from 60% to 30% in Newfoundland and Labrador between 2007 and 2012 because of a government strategy that increased affordable housing and income support rates.

Hiroko - mental health

andy_wilkins — 2018-09-11 17:22:46 UTC

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Yuri Yamanaka-health

2018-09-11 17:22:46 UTC

I learned about the impact of food insecurity on health. The insecure access to food has caused a public health problem in Canada.
Food-insecure adults tend to have chronic health problems, such as diabetes. One bar chart about the prevalence of chronical conditions shows that there is a correlation between the severity of food insecurity and the prevalence of chronic conditions. Above all, what made me surprised was that there are big differences on the proportions of anxiety disorder patients and heart disease between the severely food insecure and the food secure. I can understand that food-insecure adults feel nervous and have mental problems because they are lacking of food, which is the most important thing to live.

Atsushi Social Assistance

2018-09-11 17:22:46 UTC

According to this pie chart, people who were on social welfare were more likely to be food insecure in Canada, 2012. Therefore, there is a correlation between poverty and food insecurity. The high rates of food insecurity among households reliant on social assistance suggest that support programs are failing to enable recipients to meet their basic needs.
However the notably lower rate of food insecurity in NL is linked to the impact of policy reforms. There was a successful poverty reduction strategy in 2006. According to this line graph, the rate of food insecurity in NL decreased from 60 percent to 30 percent.
Provincial and territorial governments should reform current programs to meet ensure that recipients can meet their basic needs.

Daichi Children in Food Insecure

2018-09-11 17:22:47 UTC

According to Canadian Community Health Survey(CCHS), over 80% of households with children are food secure. But approximately 15% of households with children are food insecure. Household food insecurity affects 1 in 6 Canadian children under the age of 18 on average. I think this is very high proportion. Proportion of children who lived in food insecure households is highest in Nunavut. Over half of the children living in the region lived in food insecure households. There is severe food insecurity. I think it is because Nunavut is the northern part of Canada, and it may be too cold to grow crops. So foods are more expensive in the area than in southern part of Canada. I think there is a wide gap between north and south in terms of food insecurity.

Saya Feed Insecurity and Mental Health

2018-09-11 17:22:53 UTC

From the most recent national estimate, 1 in 8 households in Canada are food insecure, amounting to over 4million Canadians, including 1.5 million children. The first graph shows us that people who are food insecure have highest percentage of contract a mental disease compared with people who are food secure.
According to the second graph, only 12% of people are food insecure. They are overrepresented in terms of mental health care admissions. In fact , they represent 35% of hospitalizations. clearly, there is a correlation between food insecure and mental health.

Tom - Health

2018-09-11 17:22:58 UTC

In the article, people are divided to four types: Severely food insecure, Moderately food insecure, Marginally food insecure and Food secure. This research is focused on the relationship between prevalence of chronic conditions and the level of food insecurity. According to the bar chart, as the level of food insecurity get higher, the percentage of adults reporting some conditions drastically increase. In detail, the proportion of anxiety disorder, heart disease and diabetes mellitus are seriously high in severely food insecure group. In addition, this research is also focused on the cost of health care incurred over 12 months. According to the second bar chart, as I expected, getting worse the level of food insecurity, getting more expensive the average health care costs. The biggest factor of the cost is prescription drug. In total, severely food insecure group cost 121% higher than food secure group. This is serious problem.

Hibachi

2018-09-11 17:23:10 UTC

There are 35 million people in Canada and 11% of them, 4 million, are living in food insecure households. Food insecurity is a serious problem even in developed countries. According to Statictics Canada, CCHS (2007), the number of insecure households is increasing year by year. In 2007, less than 1.4 million were in household food insecurity, but in 2012, it became over 1.6 million. which mean, more than 200 thousands had become to have problems in food.
There are three types of food security. One, which is most serious situation and called severe food insecurity. People in here, miss their meals or reduce food intake. Second one, is Moderate food insecurity. They do not have choice about their food. Last one is Marginal food insecurity. They are worrying about their food but not so serious.

 In 2014, the data from Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, it turned out that people live in north parts of Canada are more likely to get in food insecurity than South regions. For example, The province of Nunavut has quite much of residents who are suffering from food insecurity. That number is equivariant to 46.8%, almost half of all residents are in food insecurity.

Ayane - public policy and food insecurity

2018-09-11 17:23:12 UTC

According to the data of CCHS, the lower the household income is, the higher the risk of food insecurity. Especially, more than 30% of people with low incomes (less than $20,000) experience food insecurity.
In addition, there is a bar chart about how food insecurity is related to main source of income. This chart shows that those who receive social assistance face problems of food insecurity. This fact means that social assistance recipients are more likely than not to be food insecure, and new strategy is necessary to solve this problem.
The third graph shows how political strategy succeeded in Newfoundland and Labrador. Food insecurity among social assistance dropped from 60% to 30% between 2007 and 2012. This fact is surprising because the province is one of the poor provinces in Canada. In that province, many strategies were enacted. For example, they increased income support rates indexed rates to inflation, affordable housing, etc. In my opinion, government should enact new strategy to decline the number of people especially who receive social assistance like the province.

Riki - Monitoring Food Insecurity in Canada

2018-09-11 17:23:22 UTC

According to the paper, there are 3 levels of food insecurity in Canada, and two of them, Moderate Food Insecurity and Marginal Food insecurity, are gradually increasing in number. Although data from a few provinces are missing, research conducted by Statistics Canada shows that food insecurity in Nunavut, northern part of the country, amounts to as much as 46.8 percent of the population. It is possible that this is caused by the unfavorable weather for agriculture, and its reliance on imported products which tend to be more expensive than local products. Despite the fact that the situation already seems quite bad in some areas, it should also be noted that the data does not include certain population such as individuals living on First Nations reserves, full time members of the Canadian Forces, and homeless people. If data from these people were to be involved in the statistics, it might be the case that Food Insecurity in Canada is worse than it seems on the paper.

yuho social assistance

2018-09-11 17:23:24 UTC

This paper can be broken into two parts, which are criticism toward the current social welfare system and effectiveness of policy changes implemented in NL and BC.
In the first part, the writer touches on the problematic situation in the current social welfare system. According to the pie chart the author cites , of those relying on the social welfare system, almost 70 percent of them are food insecure. From that data, it Is concluded that the current system is failing to enable people to meet their basic needs.
In the second part, the writer touches upon the effectiveness of policy changes in terms of reduction of poverty. According to the bar chart, food insecurity in NL is relatively lower when compared with other provinces and territories. It is said in this paper that this relative success is brought by effectiveness of policy changes in poverty reduction implemented in 2006. Moreover, in this paper, successful case of policy changes in BC is indicated,backing up writers view that policy change in dealing with food insecurity.
In my opinion, dealing with poverty should be prioritized because the level of prevalence of poverty can be reflective of how societies are operating.That means I basically follow the authors opinion.

Ken- Public Policy and Food Insecurity

2018-09-11 17:23:31 UTC

The main reason of food insecurity is the low income. According to the first graph, the percentage of food insecurity decreases as income becomes higher. It drops from about 50% to 3%.
From the second graph, it is clear that people relying on senior's income have the lowest rate of food insecurity while social assistance has the highest. Seniors are protected by the guaranteed annual income which would secure their food but the people who are unemployed doesn't receive enough support from the government and therefore it leads to insecure access to food.
To minimize the problem, some provinces have introduced policies to improve the situation. For example, Newfoundland and Labrador. Their policy was to increase income support rates, health benefits, affordable housing etc... It was published on 2006 and the prevalence of food insecurity reduced from 60% to 30% by 2012.

Kanako-Children in Food Insecure Household

2018-09-11 17:23:32 UTC

According to Canadian Community Health Survey, over 80% of families with children are food secure. On the other hand, about 15% of them are food insecure, especially those headed by single mothers. Surprisingly, 2.7% are severely food insecure which is linked with suicidal ideation.
As for these families, 60% of the children live in Nunavut, the Northern part of Canada. In addition to this, Prince Edward Island has rates of more than 1 in 5 children experiencing food insecurity.
I guessed that people cannot get enough affordable food easily because of their habitation in those area.
I was very shocked and surprised at the situation that household food insecurity affects 1 in 6 Canadian children under the age of 18.
This situation may be seen in Japan, so it is imperative that some policies be implemented to make it easier for them to buy products.

maiha-food insecurity and social assistance

2018-09-11 17:23:42 UTC

According to the pie chart, people who were on social welfare were more likely to be food insecure in 2012.In fact,69.5% of households reliance on social assistance as main income is about 6 times higher than all households. The bar graph which indicate that proportion of households reliant on social assistance who were food insecure. It shows that Canada provinces are more than 60% except for Newfoundland and Labrador in 2011-2012.It is less than 50% owing to the impact of policy reforms introduced as part of their poverty reduction strategy in 2006.Therefore it reduce dramatically from 60% to less than 40% during 5 years.

Nanako Monitoring Food Insecurity in Canada

2018-09-11 17:23:45 UTC

Statistics Canada showed us that over 4 million people in Canada, which amounts to 11% of people in the nation. There are 3 kinds of food insecurity. The worst one is Severe food insecurity. Sometimes they skip their food because of their limited budget. Moderate food insecurity is better than the former one. However, because of the same reason as the former one, they have to compromise in quality and quantity of food. The last one is Marginal food insecurity. They only worry about the possibility of lacking food. The number of people experiencing marginal food insecurity and moderate food insecurity is gradually increasing. According to Statistics Canada, food insecurity varies greatly between provinces, for example, Nunavut has the highest percentage of people experiencing food insecurity , it amounts to 46.8%. However, the smallest number is 10.6% in Saskatchewan. From this survey, in northern part of Canada, the situation of food insecurity is much more severe. I think this huge difference is caused because in northern part, it's too cold to grow crops and the high cost of transportation raises the price of food.
These results seems to be proper, however in this survey, individuals in First Nations' land or Crown lands, people in the army, persons in prisons and care facilities, and the homeless are excluded. In addition, some provinces chose not to monitor the situation of food insecurity. Therefore, the Canadian government doesn't understand thoroughly the situation the nation faces. Considering these points, the situation of food insecurity can be worse than these surveys show.

Yuta - Health

2018-09-11 17:23:57 UTC

There are two bar charts in the paper. One is about the relationship between food insecurity and prevalence of chronic conditions. The other refers to health care costs. As for the prevalence of chronic conditions, food-insecure adults are more vulnerable to chronic conditions, which is increasing with the severity of food insecurity. According to the bar chart, the percentages of people who are in severely food secure is the highest in each chronic conditions. Especially, in anxiety disorder, heart disease, and diabetes mellitus, its percentages is more higher than other severity of food insecure. Therefore, there is a positive correlation between food insecurity and prevalence of chronic conditions. In addition, food insecurity makes it difficult for individuals to manage existing chronic health problems.
Secondly, according to the bar chart about average health care costs, severely food insecure household paid $3930 over 12 months. Especially, prescription drugs, inpatient costs, and physician services account for almost all of its health care costs. The number of the costs is 121% higher than that of food secure households. We need more health care costs assistance and it would improve overall their health.

Sari

2018-09-11 17:24:08 UTC

~Monitoring Food Security in Canada~

Acco this article, about 11% of people live in food insecure households in Canada.
The chart, "Household food insecurity in Canada" shows that the number of people experiencing marginal and moderate food insecurity is increasing. What you have to be aware of in terms of this chart is that it excludessindividuals living on First Nations reserves or Crown Lands, which are owned by the government, people in the army for full time, prisoners, patients in care facilities and the homeless.
Next, the chart, "Household food insecurity by province and territory (2014)" shows that food insecurity varies greatly among provinces. For example, Nunavut has the highest percentage; 46.8%, which is almost half of the population. On the other hand, Saskatchewan is the lowest with only 10.6%. Obviously, the northern part of Canada is more serious in terms of food security. Our group discussed the reason why there is so much difference. We think that the climate and the environment affect food insecurity. Since the northern part is way colder than the southern part, people can't grow vegetables or fruits and are struggling to get enough food.

Megumi mental Health

2018-09-11 17:26:02 UTC

Household food insecurity is strongly related to mental health. According to S.C., only 12% of people are food insecure. However, they are overrepresented in terms of mental health care admissions.
I think this is a very severe problem and we need to think about it seriously. Also, we have to consider food supply. For severely food insecurity people, it is much more difficult to secure food because of the rise in prices and works of society. I think the government try to change the works of food supply, and we won

Taiga- mental Health

2018-09-11 17:26:08 UTC

Household food insecurity negatively impacts not only physical but also mental well-being.

According to Statistics Canada, 1 in 8 households in Canada is estimated to be food insecure. This causes them a variety of mental health issues.
A survey by Statistics Canada shows that the severer their household insecurity status is, the more adverse mental health outcomes reported.

Another study by Statistics Canada supports this theory. It indicates that approximately 40% of people admitting hospitalization is those who are food insecure, while the portion of them is about only 12%.

Satomi - Children in Food Insecure Households

2018-09-11 17:35:13 UTC

According to the data, children who lived in food insecure households are concentrate on Northern Canada. I think that reason is the climate. In Northern Canada, it's colder than Southern Canada, so they cannot grow a lot of crops and cannot get enough food.

Also, there are many children who lived in food insecure households in eastern islands of Canada. I guess that that reason is few land. There are not enough land to grow crops. Then, if they get food from other place, the price of it will become so high due to the transportation.

Like these, there is a correlation between children who lived in food insecure households and environment of own region.

Satomi - Children in Food Insecure Households

2018-09-11 17:58:29 UTC

According to pie chart, about 15% of households with children are food insecure. It seems that low value, but 1 in 6 Canadian children under the age of 18 are food insecure. That's why, in fact, 15% of food insecurity is large.