Deborah L Crooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 104344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah L Crooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah L |
| FAMILY NAME | Crooks |
| SIGNATURE | CROOKS D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Coping and the biosocial consequences of food insecurity in the 21st century
Food security occurs when all members of a household have reliable access to food in sufficient quantity and quality to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. Given the important biological and social value of food for humans, food and food sufficiency have been traditional topics of study among biological anthropologists. The focus on food insecurity, however, has emerged within the past two decades and recent global events, including the foo…
Migration Following Resettlement of the Gwembe Tonga of Zambia: The Consequences for Children's Growth
In 1958, 57,000 Gwembe Tonga people were forcibly relocated by a large-scale hydroelectric development project. The land on which they were resettled was insufficient to sustain their livelihoods, and many later chose to migrate to a frontier zone north and west of the Gwembe Valley to secure additional land for farming. Guided by human adaptability theory, we use child growth as a measure of success of the migration strategy, and find that in 20…
Child growth as a measure of livelihood security: The case of the Gwembe Tonga
This article outlines an approach to the study of child growth and development in adverse environments that utilizes growth to measure the success of the human/environment interaction. This type of biocultural, human adaptability perspective focuses on within group variation to gain an understanding of the differential ability of households to negotiate opportunities and constraints in the ecological/social/cultural environment. As an example, we…
Promoting Multi-methods Research: Linking Anthropometric Methods to Migration Studies
The experience of migration includes costs and benefits to migrants and sending communities. In the tradition of a “letters” type discussion, this paper presents a synthesis of recent work from a longitudinal study from Zambia, Africa that used a mixed-methods approach to investigate the experience and outcomes of migration among the Gwembe Tonga. In this ethnographic study, we argue that including anthropometric methods in migration studies enha…
Trading Nutrition for Education: Nutritional Status and the Sale of Snack Foods in an Eastern Kentucky School
Overweight and poor nutrition of children in the United States are becoming issues of increasing concern for public health. Dietary patterns of U.S. children indicate they are consuming too few fruits and vegetables and too many foods high in fat and sugar. Contributing to this pattern of food consumption is snacking, which is reported to be on the increase among adults and children alike. One place where snacking is under increased scrutiny, and…
Food consumption, activity, and overweight among elementary school children in an Appalachian Kentucky community
In the U.S., child overweight is on the rise and is implicated in later adult chronic illness. Given that overweight is hardly tractable, prevention as compared to treatment is seen as a better alternative for lowering the risk of long-term health consequences. To increase the success of prevention efforts, many argue that programs must be "culturally sensitive and targeted toward specific populations at greater risk. However, there exists a limi…
Council On Nutritional Anthropology: Some Parting Words from the Outgoing President
Council on Nutritional Anthropology: Important Notes from the CNA President
Biosocial perspectives on children
Biosocial perspectives on children
Understanding children's nutritional status: Combining anthropological approaches in poverty research
Child growth and nutritional status in a high‐poverty community in eastern Kentucky
The research reported in this paper examines the relationship between household socioeconomic measures, child growth, and nutritional status in a community in eastern Kentucky with a high rate of poverty. It is based on the premise that child growth and nutritional status reflect the social circumstances in which they occur. 21.6% of the children exhibited low height ( 85th percentile and >95th percentile of National Health and Nutrition Examinat…
Child growth and nutritional status in a high-poverty community in eastern Kentucky
The research reported in this paper examines the relationship between household socioeconomic measures, child growth, and nutritional status in a community in eastern Kentucky with a high rate of poverty. It is based on the premise that child growth and nutritional status reflect the social circumstances in which they occur. 21.6% of the children exhibited low height ( 85th percentile and >95th percentile of National Health and Nutrition Examinat…
Nutritional Anthropology at U Kentucky
Welcome from the President-Elect
Biocultural Factors in School Achievement for Mopan Children in Belize
Mayan children in Belize face a number of challenges to school success. Their families are the poorest of the poor, and the Mopan children in this study exhibit poor growth and poor school achievement. But a direct relationship between growth and school achievement was evident only for current nutritional status, not for nutritional history. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data revealed that school achievement for these Mopan childr…
American children at risk: Poverty and its consequences for children's health, growth, and school achievement
In the United States, over 39 million people live in poverty
Relationship between environment and growth for Mopan children in Belize
The growth status (stature, weight, body mass index, arm circumference, estimated arm muscle and fat) of Mopan Maya children, ages 9–14 years, from San Antonio, Toledo, Belize, is evaluated with two objectives: (1) to identify associations between growth and factors in the household and local environment that coexist with poverty, and (2) to consider growth in relation to the distribution of national resources. One‐way analyses of variance indica…
Growth status of school‐age Mayan children in Belize, Central America
This paper reports the growth status of a sample of Mopan Maya school children living in a rural village in Belize. These children exhibit a growth pattern typical of chronic undernutrition, in that a high percentage are stunted (66%), but virtually none are wasted by WHO criteria. The Belize Maya children are compared to four other Amerindian groups and found to be shorter and lighter than a semi‐urban group from Guatemala, but taller and heavie…
Dual Anthropology Career Couples: Different Strategies and Different Success Rates
Coping and the biosocial consequences of food insecurity in the 21st century
Food security occurs when all members of a household have reliable access to food in sufficient quantity and quality to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. Given the important biological and social value of food for humans, food and food sufficiency have been traditional topics of study among biological anthropologists. The focus on food insecurity, however, has emerged within the past two decades and recent global events, including the foo…
American children at risk: Poverty and its consequences for children's health, growth, and school achievement
In the United States, over 39 million people live in poverty
Biocultural Factors in School Achievement for Mopan Children in Belize
Mayan children in Belize face a number of challenges to school success. Their families are the poorest of the poor, and the Mopan children in this study exhibit poor growth and poor school achievement. But a direct relationship between growth and school achievement was evident only for current nutritional status, not for nutritional history. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data revealed that school achievement for these Mopan childr…
Trading Nutrition for Education: Nutritional Status and the Sale of Snack Foods in an Eastern Kentucky School
Overweight and poor nutrition of children in the United States are becoming issues of increasing concern for public health. Dietary patterns of U.S. children indicate they are consuming too few fruits and vegetables and too many foods high in fat and sugar. Contributing to this pattern of food consumption is snacking, which is reported to be on the increase among adults and children alike. One place where snacking is under increased scrutiny, and…
Growth status of school‐age Mayan children in Belize, Central America
This paper reports the growth status of a sample of Mopan Maya school children living in a rural village in Belize. These children exhibit a growth pattern typical of chronic undernutrition, in that a high percentage are stunted (66%), but virtually none are wasted by WHO criteria. The Belize Maya children are compared to four other Amerindian groups and found to be shorter and lighter than a semi‐urban group from Guatemala, but taller and heavie…
Dual Anthropology Career Couples: Different Strategies and Different Success Rates
Relationship between environment and growth for Mopan children in Belize
The growth status (stature, weight, body mass index, arm circumference, estimated arm muscle and fat) of Mopan Maya children, ages 9–14 years, from San Antonio, Toledo, Belize, is evaluated with two objectives: (1) to identify associations between growth and factors in the household and local environment that coexist with poverty, and (2) to consider growth in relation to the distribution of national resources. One‐way analyses of variance indica…
Growth status of school‐age Mayan children in Belize, Central America
This paper reports the growth status of a sample of Mopan Maya school children living in a rural village in Belize. These children exhibit a growth pattern typical of chronic undernutrition, in that a high percentage are stunted (66%), but virtually none are wasted by WHO criteria. The Belize Maya children are compared to four other Amerindian groups and found to be shorter and lighter than a semi‐urban group from Guatemala, but taller and heavie…
Dual Anthropology Career Couples: Different Strategies and Different Success Rates
American children at risk: Poverty and its consequences for children's health, growth, and school achievement
In the United States, over 39 million people live in poverty
Biocultural Factors in School Achievement for Mopan Children in Belize
Mayan children in Belize face a number of challenges to school success. Their families are the poorest of the poor, and the Mopan children in this study exhibit poor growth and poor school achievement. But a direct relationship between growth and school achievement was evident only for current nutritional status, not for nutritional history. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data revealed that school achievement for these Mopan childr…
Welcome from the President-Elect
Biosocial perspectives on children
Biosocial perspectives on children
Understanding children's nutritional status: Combining anthropological approaches in poverty research
Child growth and nutritional status in a high‐poverty community in eastern Kentucky
The research reported in this paper examines the relationship between household socioeconomic measures, child growth, and nutritional status in a community in eastern Kentucky with a high rate of poverty. It is based on the premise that child growth and nutritional status reflect the social circumstances in which they occur. 21.6% of the children exhibited low height ( 85th percentile and >95th percentile of National Health and Nutrition Examinat…
Child growth and nutritional status in a high-poverty community in eastern Kentucky
The research reported in this paper examines the relationship between household socioeconomic measures, child growth, and nutritional status in a community in eastern Kentucky with a high rate of poverty. It is based on the premise that child growth and nutritional status reflect the social circumstances in which they occur. 21.6% of the children exhibited low height ( 85th percentile and >95th percentile of National Health and Nutrition Examinat…
Nutritional Anthropology at U Kentucky
Food consumption, activity, and overweight among elementary school children in an Appalachian Kentucky community
In the U.S., child overweight is on the rise and is implicated in later adult chronic illness. Given that overweight is hardly tractable, prevention as compared to treatment is seen as a better alternative for lowering the risk of long-term health consequences. To increase the success of prevention efforts, many argue that programs must be "culturally sensitive and targeted toward specific populations at greater risk. However, there exists a limi…
Council On Nutritional Anthropology: Some Parting Words from the Outgoing President
Council on Nutritional Anthropology: Important Notes from the CNA President
Trading Nutrition for Education: Nutritional Status and the Sale of Snack Foods in an Eastern Kentucky School
Overweight and poor nutrition of children in the United States are becoming issues of increasing concern for public health. Dietary patterns of U.S. children indicate they are consuming too few fruits and vegetables and too many foods high in fat and sugar. Contributing to this pattern of food consumption is snacking, which is reported to be on the increase among adults and children alike. One place where snacking is under increased scrutiny, and…
Child growth as a measure of livelihood security: The case of the Gwembe Tonga
This article outlines an approach to the study of child growth and development in adverse environments that utilizes growth to measure the success of the human/environment interaction. This type of biocultural, human adaptability perspective focuses on within group variation to gain an understanding of the differential ability of households to negotiate opportunities and constraints in the ecological/social/cultural environment. As an example, we…
Promoting Multi-methods Research: Linking Anthropometric Methods to Migration Studies
The experience of migration includes costs and benefits to migrants and sending communities. In the tradition of a “letters” type discussion, this paper presents a synthesis of recent work from a longitudinal study from Zambia, Africa that used a mixed-methods approach to investigate the experience and outcomes of migration among the Gwembe Tonga. In this ethnographic study, we argue that including anthropometric methods in migration studies enha…
Migration Following Resettlement of the Gwembe Tonga of Zambia: The Consequences for Children's Growth
In 1958, 57,000 Gwembe Tonga people were forcibly relocated by a large-scale hydroelectric development project. The land on which they were resettled was insufficient to sustain their livelihoods, and many later chose to migrate to a frontier zone north and west of the Gwembe Valley to secure additional land for farming. Guided by human adaptability theory, we use child growth as a measure of success of the migration strategy, and find that in 20…
Coping and the biosocial consequences of food insecurity in the 21st century
Food security occurs when all members of a household have reliable access to food in sufficient quantity and quality to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. Given the important biological and social value of food for humans, food and food sufficiency have been traditional topics of study among biological anthropologists. The focus on food insecurity, however, has emerged within the past two decades and recent global events, including the foo…
Sociology (14 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Citation (8 works) · Library science (8 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works)