Association between household food insecurity and annual health care costs.

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Abstract

Household food insecurity, a measure of income-related problems of food access, is growing in Canada and is tightly linked to poorer health status. We examined the association between household food insecurity status and annual health care costs.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): CMAJ

Title: CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne

Publisher: Joule Inc.

ISSN (Electronic): 1488-2329

ISSN (Print): 0820-3946

Publication date (Electronic): Oct 06 2015

Volume: 187

Issue: 14

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[1 ] Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto (Tarasuk, Dachner); Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Cheng, de Oliveira, Kurdyak); Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (Cheng, Kurdyak); Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto (de Oliveira, Kurdyak), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois (Gundersen), Urbana, Ill. valerie.tarasuk@utoronto.ca.

[2 ] Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto (Tarasuk, Dachner); Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Cheng, de Oliveira, Kurdyak); Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (Cheng, Kurdyak); Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto (de Oliveira, Kurdyak), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois (Gundersen), Urbana, Ill.

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Publisher Item ID: cmaj.150234

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.150234

PMC ID: 4592315

PubMed ID: 26261199

SO-VID: ce522766-c501-4481-9d6b-a25efd9902bd

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