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Childhood Food Insecurity: Health Impacts, Screening, and Intervention
The Childhood Hunger Initiative (CHI) of Oregon, in partnership with OSU Extended Campus, has developed a free online and paper-based course with optional continuing medical education credits, Childhood Food Insecurity: Health Impacts, Screening, and Intervention.
Children living in food-insecure households are at higher risk for developmental and academic problems, frequent illness and nutritional inadequacies. Knowledge of indicators and impacts of childhood hunger allows health providers to identify patients and risk and to provide an appropriate intervention. Further awareness and education among those who monitor health and development of children is an urgent need.
The Childhood Food Insecurity course is divided into five modules:
- Introduction and overview
- Food insecurity: definitions, measurement, prevalence, and predictors
- Food access and food choices: complex issues
- Food insecurity: relationship to child health and development
- Intervention strategies
It is best to go through each module in order. Each module takes 5-10 minutes to complete, although you may start and stop as often as you like.
Course now available
As of October 1, 2008, the Childhood Food Insecurity online course is now available.
Continuing medical education (CME) credits
For physicians seeking CME credits, registration and the online exam are required. At the conclusion of the free online course, you will have the opportunity to register for CME credits and complete an exam to test your knowledge. We would also appreciate your feedback on the course via the optional survey.
Start the Childhood Food Insecurity online course now.
