Shir Lerman Ginzburg

• The Role of Farm to School Programs in Promoting Healthy School Food Environments in the United States

  Open Access•Sydney Pryor, Sumathi Venkatesh et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of School Health•2026

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  BACKGROUND: Most children and adolescents in the United States fall short of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, with disparities by race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geography. As K-12 students consume much of their daily nutrition from school meals, this scoping review sought to document reported impacts of Farm to School (F2S) programs on child-level food-related outcomes and discuss their potential to advance nutrition and healt…

• Problems Faced During the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic

  Shir Lerman, Shir Lerman Ginzburg et al.•ARTICLE•Practicing Anthropology•2023

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  COVID-19 brought widespread social isolation, anxiety, and economic instability. No aspect of societal function was unaffected, including anthropologists’ ability to use traditional face-to-face methodologies. In this paper, we describe our adaptation to these constraints as we examine the problems people faced during the early pandemic. We draw on cultural ecology to discuss how researchers and the public adapted to extraordinarily challenging e…

• Diabetes

  Open Access•Shir Lerman, Shir Lerman Ginzburg et al.•ARTICLE•Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology•2023

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  Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a global disease that involves the body’s impaired ability to regulate blood sugar (glucose) due to malfunctioning insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas which is responsible for transporting the glucose into the cells. Anthropologists have provided meaningful insights into the causes (aetiologies) and prevalence of diabetes, particularly focusing on the social, political, and economic factors that underlie the wa…

• Syndemics

  M Singer, Nicola Bulled et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Anthropology•2021•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 65

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  In this review, we trace the origins and dissemination of syndemics, a concept developed within critical medical anthropology that rapidly diffused to other fields. The goal is to provide a review of the literature, with a focus on key debates. After a brief discussion of the nature and significance of syndemic theory and its applications, we trace the history and development of the syndemic framework within anthropology and the contributions of …

• Syndemics

  M Singer, Nicola Bulled et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Anthropology•2021•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 65

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  In this review, we trace the origins and dissemination of syndemics, a concept developed within critical medical anthropology that rapidly diffused to other fields. The goal is to provide a review of the literature, with a focus on key debates. After a brief discussion of the nature and significance of syndemic theory and its applications, we trace the history and development of the syndemic framework within anthropology and the contributions of …

• Syndemics

  M Singer, Nicola Bulled et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Anthropology•2021•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 65

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  In this review, we trace the origins and dissemination of syndemics, a concept developed within critical medical anthropology that rapidly diffused to other fields. The goal is to provide a review of the literature, with a focus on key debates. After a brief discussion of the nature and significance of syndemic theory and its applications, we trace the history and development of the syndemic framework within anthropology and the contributions of …

• Problems Faced During the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic

  Shir Lerman, Shir Lerman Ginzburg et al.•ARTICLE•Practicing Anthropology•2023

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  COVID-19 brought widespread social isolation, anxiety, and economic instability. No aspect of societal function was unaffected, including anthropologists’ ability to use traditional face-to-face methodologies. In this paper, we describe our adaptation to these constraints as we examine the problems people faced during the early pandemic. We draw on cultural ecology to discuss how researchers and the public adapted to extraordinarily challenging e…

• Diabetes

  Open Access•Shir Lerman, Shir Lerman Ginzburg et al.•ARTICLE•Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology•2023

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  Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a global disease that involves the body’s impaired ability to regulate blood sugar (glucose) due to malfunctioning insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas which is responsible for transporting the glucose into the cells. Anthropologists have provided meaningful insights into the causes (aetiologies) and prevalence of diabetes, particularly focusing on the social, political, and economic factors that underlie the wa…

• The Role of Farm to School Programs in Promoting Healthy School Food Environments in the United States

  Open Access•Sydney Pryor, Sumathi Venkatesh et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of School Health•2026

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  BACKGROUND: Most children and adolescents in the United States fall short of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, with disparities by race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geography. As K-12 students consume much of their daily nutrition from school meals, this scoping review sought to document reported impacts of Farm to School (F2S) programs on child-level food-related outcomes and discuss their potential to advance nutrition and healt…

Medicine (3 obras) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (2 obras) · Sociology (2 obras) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 obra) · Adaptation (eye (1 obra) · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (1 obra) · Anxiety (1 obra) · Bioinformatics (1 obra) · Biology (1 obra) · Biomedicine (1 obra)