Food Systems and Health.

Front Cover -- Food Systems and Health -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Food Systems and Health -- Notes -- References -- Part I. Food Systems and Health Outcomes -- Food System Channels, Health, and Illness -- Introduction -- Food System Channels -- Food System Channels and Other Components of Food Systems -- Food System Channels, Health, and Illness -- Historical Health and Illness Changes and Food System Channels -- Applications of Food System Channels -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Rich Foods: The Cross-National Effects of Healthy Eating on Health Outcomes -- Introduction -- Background -- Fundamental Cause -- The Health Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables -- Fruit and Vegetable Inequality -- Global Food Systems, Access, Availability, and Diversity -- Food Consumption, Food Systems, and Fundamental Causes -- Expectations -- Data -- Dependent Variable -- Independent Variables -- Control Variables -- Methods -- Results -- Descriptive Associations -- Aggregate Effects -- Three-Level Interactions -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Food Insecurity and Mental Health: A Gendered Issue? -- Background -- Conceptualizing Household Food Insecurity -- Considering Variation in the Effects of Food Insecurity by Gender -- Summary of Hypotheses -- Methods -- Data -- Measures -- Analytic Approaches -- Results -- Descriptive Statistics -- Multivariate Analyses -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Part II. The Social Determinants of Consumption -- Food Priorities: Sociodemographic Variation in Constrained Choices at the Grocery Store -- Background -- Constrained Choice Theory -- Contextual Constraint Variation -- Sociodemographic Contextual Constraints -- Familial Contextual Constraints -- Data and Methods -- Methods -- Analytic Plan.

Results -- Sociodemographic Characteristics -- Multivariate Models -- Discussion -- Limitations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Educational Attainment and Dietary Lifestyles -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Health Lifestyle Theory -- Human Capital Theory -- Health Commodity Theory -- The Case of Dietary Lifestyles -- Hypotheses -- Data -- Measures -- Dietary Behaviors -- Dietary Lifestyle Indices -- Education -- Income -- Background Variables -- Statistical Procedures -- Results -- Descriptive Statistics -- Dietary Lifestyles -- Individual Dietary Behaviors -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Let Them Eat Cake: Socioeconomic Status and Caregiver Indulgence of Children's Food and Drink Requests -- Background -- Children's Food-Seeking Behaviors -- Caregivers' Nutritional Attitudes and Values -- Caregiver Social Control and Monitoring -- Symbolic Indulgence and Deprivation -- Methods -- Measures -- Dependent Variable -- Independent Variables -- Analysis -- Results -- Bivariate Analyses: Socioeconomic Status Differences in Key Explanatory Variables -- Mediation Models: Explaining Socioeconomic Status Differences in Response to Children's Requests -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part III. Alternative Food Institutions and Ideologies -- The Promises and Pitfalls of Alternative Food Institutions: Impacts on and Barriers to Engagement with Low-Income Persons i... -- Introduction -- Methods -- Outcomes -- Food Consumption -- Food Access and Security -- Food Skills -- Other Physical Health Outcomes -- Economic Outcomes -- Civic Outcomes -- Build Environment -- Barriers to Engagement -- Organizational Barriers -- Cultural Barriers -- Economic Barriers -- Social Barriers -- Cognitive/Physical -- Overcoming Barriers -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Extension of What and to Whom? A Qualitative Study of Self-Provisioning Service Delivery in a University Extension Program -- Introduction -- Self-Provisioning in Historical and Contemporary Context -- Extension and Food System Reform -- Food Self-Provisioning in Context -- Data and Methods -- Results -- Extension of What and to Whom? -- Self-Provisioning Extension Education: Differential Demand, Differential Outcomes -- Whose Needs Are Met by Extension Programming? -- Discussion: Extension of What and to Whom? -- Notes -- References -- "Grounded in the Neighborhood, Grounded in Community": Social Capital and Health in Community Gardens -- Introduction -- The Food Project's Garden Programs -- Background -- Data and Methods -- Results -- Expanding Social Networks -- Sharing Food and Social Support -- Preserving Culture in Diaspora -- Collective Efficacy: Addressing Issues of Neighborhood Safety and Health -- Gardening as Political Action -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Reclaiming Policy Imagination: Buen Vivir, Policy Culture, and the Policy Divide between Health and Agriculture in Puerto Rico -- Eating in Puerto Rico -- Background -- Data and Methods -- Food and Agriculture Policy in Puerto Rico: An Empirical Journey -- The Historical Diagnosis -- The Statistical Diagnosis -- The Discursive Diagnosis -- Conclusion: Reclaiming Policy Imagination through Mestizaje and Criollización -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors.

Volume 18 of Advances in Medical Sociology brings cutting-edge sociological research to bear on these multiple dimensions of food systems and their impacts on individual and population health. This volume highlights how food systems matter for health policy, health politics, the lived experiences and life chances of individuals and communities.

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