Topics in Clinical Nutrition
Volume 31, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 213-221

Food supplies of immigrant and minority households: How prepared are they for disaster emergency conditions? (Article)

Golem D.* , Hallman W. , Cuite C. , Bellows A.C. , Byrd-Bredbenner C.
  • a Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, United States
  • b Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, United States
  • c Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, United States
  • d Department of Public Health, Food Studies, and Nutrition, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
  • e Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, United States

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the disaster emergency food supply in low-income, African-American and Oaxacan-American households in the United States. The project systematically inventoried the food supply in low-income African-American (n = 30) and Oaxacan-American households (n = 30) to determine the number of days that the food supply provided all household members with 100% of the daily value for calories (HCD, household calorie days) and to project the impact of losing food-related resources. Oaxacan-American households had a mean of 17.14 ± 13.27 standard deviation HCD whereas African-American households averaged 16.74 ± 14.02 standard deviation HCD. Three days after loss of resources, 40% of Oaxacan-American and 47% of African-American households would have exhausted their food supplies for the household. Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

African-American Household calorie days Household food supply Disaster emergency preparedness Oaxacan-American

Index Keywords

emergency calorie immigrant household lowest income group compensation human controlled study priority journal disaster African American catering service United States food availability female Article adult standard nutrient Child
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84981276167&doi=10.1097%2fTIN.0000000000000074&partnerID=40&md5=13c04bee8e58813731c7e76e8f7f42de
DOI: 10.1097/TIN.0000000000000074
ISSN: 08835691
Original Language: English