Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Hunger and Poverty in Urban America: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Brooklyn, NY, November 8, 1985U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 211 páginas |
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administrative AFDC agencies analysis of Table and/or Food Stamps anemia applying for Welfare asthma Bronx Brooklyn budget cent as compared cent reported Center for help Chairman LELAND children was closed Con Ed CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contact persons Cut Off Welfare cut-off households DEHAVENON Diagnosed Medical Problems DODDS East Harlem Interfaith Ed Towns eligible emergency food relief Federal female of parental food emergency food money food pantries Food Stamp benefits Food Stamp Program funds GEORGE GROSS GILMAN GROSS Harlem Interfaith Welfare Health homeless Households in Food households with children housing hypertension income LEWTER LIBRARY OF CONGRESS living malnutrition meals Medicaid million month mother nutrition outreach participation percent population prevalent Professionally Diagnosed Medical Public Assistance re-applying for Welfare re-opened Reverend Powis SNAP soup kitchens statewide Thank Three Boroughs week Welfare and/or Food Welfare Center Welfare check Welfare Committee York City
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Página 77 - SX of the households the elderly person lived with another dependent person. The New York City elderly person was more likely to live In public housing than the elderly statewide— 18X New York City compared to 9X statewide. Forty-three percent of the New York City residents lived In private apartments whereas 43X of statewide elderly lived In one family housing. A similar percentage— 3X New York City. 2X statewide had no food preparation facilities In their home. The most startling findings of...
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Página 78 - ... of diagnoses which effect nutritional status. Involve nutrient deficiencies, or have a nutrition-related component, again listed by county. This Information was expressed as a rate for the total number of hospital discharges. These soclo demographic and Illness rates were added to comprise the Frailty Rate. The beauty of this rate Is that it accommodates for small numbers of people over 60 In a geographic area by making It the denominator and thus describes the Intensity of need geographically....
Página 79 - Is worth the humiliation. Again, with estimates of unmet need as an objective of the program, we endeavored In the spring to come up with a way to estimate need by county In order to figure out a more appropriate way than dividing the total amount by 6—(the number of food banks). We chose to use the number of people unemployed, the number of food stamp participants, the WIC eligible population each receiving al/6th weight, and the number of frail elderly receiving a weight of 1/2. The first three...
Página 77 - A diverse nutrition assessment of the frail or home bound elderly enrolled In the SNAP program between October to February was carried out by personnel from the Area Agency for the Aging. Two thousand one hundred sixty-four assessments were completed and analyzed by Cornell University unde*-contract with the Surveillance Program; 699 were from New York City. The Items on the assessment Included soclo-demographic Information, (age, sex, ethnicity. Income, living alone), reported height and weight,...
Página 11 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. First of all, I would like to commend you and the members of the subcommittee for taking an interest in this area.
Página 78 - From this experience and using epidemiological methods, we developed a composite of rates that we called the Disease Adjusted Age Specific Frailty Rate for each county, referred to henceforth as the Frailty Rate. It is composed of the rate of people over 60 who are minority, below 100X of poverty, over 85, and over 75 living alone. Then we compiled the number of people over 60 discharged with any one of a 1ist of diagnoses which effect nutritional status, involve nutrient deficiencies, or have a...
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