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A human rights approach to the health implications of food and nutrition insecurity

Overview of attention for article published in Public Health Reviews, March 2017
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Title
A human rights approach to the health implications of food and nutrition insecurity
Published in
Public Health Reviews, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40985-017-0056-5
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Authors

Ana Ayala, Benjamin Mason Meier

Abstract

Food and nutrition insecurity continues to pose a serious global challenge, reflecting government shortcomings in meeting international obligations to ensure the availability, accessibility, and quality of food and to ensure the highest attainable standard of health of their peoples. With global drivers like climate change, urbanization, greater armed conflict, and the globalization of unhealthy diet, particularly in under-resourced countries, food insecurity is rapidly becoming an even greater challenge for those living in poverty. International human rights law can serve a critical role in guiding governments that are struggling to protect the health of their populations, particularly among the most susceptible groups, in responding to food and nutrition insecurity. This article explores and advocates for a human rights approach to food and nutrition security, specifically identifying legal mechanisms to "domesticate" relevant international human rights standards through national policy. Recognizing nutrition security as a determinant of public health, this article recognizes the important links between the four main elements of food security (i.e., availability, stability, utilization, and access) and the normative attributes of the right to health and the right to food (i.e., availability, accessibility, affordability, and quality). In drawing from the evolution of international human rights instruments, official documents issued by international human rights treaty bodies, as well as past scholarship at the intersection of the right to health and right to food, this article interprets and articulates the intersectional rights-based obligations of national governments in the face of food and nutrition insecurity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 <1%
Unknown 288 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 48 17%
Student > Bachelor 40 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 11%
Student > Postgraduate 21 7%
Researcher 17 6%
Other 39 13%
Unknown 92 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 53 18%
Social Sciences 47 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 6%
Environmental Science 9 3%
Other 33 11%
Unknown 111 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2022.
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#4,594,911
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Outputs from Public Health Reviews
#129
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#75,348
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Outputs of similar age from Public Health Reviews
#7
of 9 outputs
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