Elizabeth Dowler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 457425 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth Dowler |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth |
| APELLIDO | Dowler |
| FIRMA | DOWLER E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 192 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
“A Lot of People Are Struggling Privately. They Don’t Know Where to Go or They’re Not Sure of What to Do”
This qualitative study explored frontline service providers' perceptions of the nature of food insecurity in Scotland in 2015 to inform national policy and the provision of locally-based support for 'at risk' groups. A country-wide in-depth interview study was undertaken with informants from 25 health, social care, and third sector organisations. The study investigated informants' perspectives associated with how food insecurity was manifesting i…
What can Secondary Data Tell Us about Household Food Insecurity in a High-Income Country Context
In the absence of routinely collected household food insecurity data, this study investigated what could be determined about the nature and prevalence of household food insecurity in Scotland from secondary data. Secondary analysis of the Living Costs and Food Survey (2007−2012) was conducted to calculate weekly food expenditure and its ratio to equivalised income for households below average income (HBAI) and above average income (non-HBAI). Die…
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How Can Households Eat in austerity? Challenges for Social Policy in the UK
In the United Kingdom many households are seeing their food security suffer through rising food and fuel prices, economic recession and welfare reform. Household budgeting priorities by necessity tend to be towards expenditures whose default consequences are severe; food budgets are where people can and do make economies. People manage variously on minimal diets, food gifts and charitable support, but the consequences in terms of social wellbeing…
Introduction
In many countries, people face cuts in jobs, wages and social security as economic austerity policies have been implemented to reduce public expenditure following the near collapse of the banking system in 2008. At the same time, rising food and fuel prices have combined to generate increasing and sometimes extreme hardship, not only in poorer countries of the global South where the impact has been severe, but also on economically vulnerable coun…
Consumers and food security
Just and Sustainable? Examining the Rhetoric and Potential Realities of UK Food Security
Effectiveness of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices
BACKGROUND: To assess whether monthly home visits from trained volunteers could improve infant feeding practices at age 12 months, a randomised controlled trial was carried out in two disadvantaged inner city London boroughs. METHODS: Women attending baby clinics with their infants (312) were randomised to receive monthly home visits from trained volunteers over a 9-month period (intervention group) or standard professional care only (control gro…
Doing Food Differently
(this article did not have an abstract)
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food provides evidence to support the construc…
The impact of a community-based food skills intervention on cooking confidence, food preparation methods and dietary choices – an exploratory trial
Objective To evaluate the feasibility of undertaking a food skills intervention study in areas of social deprivation aimed at altering cooking confidence, food preparation methods and dietary choices. Design A standardised skills programme was implemented in community-based settings. Pre- (T1) and post-intervention (T2) and 6-month follow-up (T3) measures (7-day diaries and self-administered questionnaires) were undertaken in intervention and com…
Possible Food Economies
Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for countering established power relations in food supply systems. However, the use of the term 'alternative' as part of a persistent dualism in which it is opposed to the 'conventional' is problematic as it loses…
The process of establishing, implementing and maintaining a social support infant feeding programme
Objective To describe the process of establishing and implementing a social support infant feeding intervention. Design This paper outlines the initial stages of a randomised controlled trial which assessed the effectiveness of a social support intervention on a range of infant feeding outcomes. Details are presented of the processes involved in recruiting, training and supporting a group of volunteers who provided support to the study sample. Se…
Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks
Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less attention is given to the methodological processes that facilitate the identification and examina…
Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks
This paper focuses on a case study of an 'alternative' food network based in the Abruzzo National Park, Italy, to explore how ideas of sustainable farmland management can be expressed through broader understandings of developing networks of care concerned with local economies and societies, high-quality specialist food products, particular 'traditional' farming practices and livestock breeds, as well as the ecology of a farmed landscape. The sche…
Poverty and Exclusion in North and South
Over the past decade there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the North, while many of the developing countries of the South have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North and South, and that these warrant further investigation and analysis.
Short cuts to safety
A number of 'food scares' over the past decade in Europe have generated considerable debate about public understandings of food risk, and the extent to which such understandings impact on decision making. This paper reports on a focus group study of how UK consumers discuss choosing safe food. Strategies for making food choices were, in general, characterised by confidence rather than anxiety. Although concerned in an abstract way with the safety…
Local Food Projects
Food and Poverty in Britain
Social policy and food/nutrition are both to some extent contested disciplines and areas for intervention. The role of food in poverty definition and measurement by experts and within the lived experience by those defined poor, has been a neglected component of disciplinary study and focused policy response in Britain in the latter half of the twentieth century. This paper explores the historical and contemporary complementarities and challenges,…
Inequalities in diet and physical activity in Europe
The contribution of food, nutrition and physical activity to inequalities in health across Europe is largely unexplored. This paper summarizes cross sectional survey data on food patterns and nutrient intakes, and briefer data on physical activity, by various indicators of socio-economic status for countries across Europe. Factors are examined which underlie the outcome data seen. These include structural and material conditions and circumstances…
Making Public Health Nutrition relevant to evidence-based action
Public health nutrition enjoyed many breakthroughs in the 20th century – from the discovery of vitamins and the metabolic roles of some 60 macro- and micronutrients, to the effects of maternal and childhood diet on health over the life course. Moreover, the food shortages in the UK that were experienced during World War II gave the first opportunity to show that nutritional science could make a valuable contribution to public policy. However, pub…
Food Poverty and Food Policy
Until recently the consequences of poverty for food, and the food element in social exclusion, have been sidelined in post?war Britain, both by those working on food and nutrition and by those in social policy. The article draws on ideas about entitlement and access to food elaborated in the South to illuminate the problems faced by the poor in the North in obtaining food, where the social and material conditions of poverty largely preclude econo…
Budgeting for food on a low income in the UK
Diet and coronary heart disease in women
Evidence on the GNP-malnutrition link
Possible Food Economies
Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for countering established power relations in food supply systems. However, the use of the term 'alternative' as part of a persistent dualism in which it is opposed to the 'conventional' is problematic as it loses…
Budgeting for food on a low income in the UK
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food provides evidence to support the construc…
Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks
This paper focuses on a case study of an 'alternative' food network based in the Abruzzo National Park, Italy, to explore how ideas of sustainable farmland management can be expressed through broader understandings of developing networks of care concerned with local economies and societies, high-quality specialist food products, particular 'traditional' farming practices and livestock breeds, as well as the ecology of a farmed landscape. The sche…
How Can Households Eat in austerity? Challenges for Social Policy in the UK
In the United Kingdom many households are seeing their food security suffer through rising food and fuel prices, economic recession and welfare reform. Household budgeting priorities by necessity tend to be towards expenditures whose default consequences are severe; food budgets are where people can and do make economies. People manage variously on minimal diets, food gifts and charitable support, but the consequences in terms of social wellbeing…
Consumers and food security
Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks
Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less attention is given to the methodological processes that facilitate the identification and examina…
Local Food Projects
Food and Poverty in Britain
Social policy and food/nutrition are both to some extent contested disciplines and areas for intervention. The role of food in poverty definition and measurement by experts and within the lived experience by those defined poor, has been a neglected component of disciplinary study and focused policy response in Britain in the latter half of the twentieth century. This paper explores the historical and contemporary complementarities and challenges,…
Just and Sustainable? Examining the Rhetoric and Potential Realities of UK Food Security
Doing Food Differently
(this article did not have an abstract)
Food Poverty and Food Policy
Until recently the consequences of poverty for food, and the food element in social exclusion, have been sidelined in post?war Britain, both by those working on food and nutrition and by those in social policy. The article draws on ideas about entitlement and access to food elaborated in the South to illuminate the problems faced by the poor in the North in obtaining food, where the social and material conditions of poverty largely preclude econo…
Introduction
In many countries, people face cuts in jobs, wages and social security as economic austerity policies have been implemented to reduce public expenditure following the near collapse of the banking system in 2008. At the same time, rising food and fuel prices have combined to generate increasing and sometimes extreme hardship, not only in poorer countries of the global South where the impact has been severe, but also on economically vulnerable coun…
Effectiveness of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices
BACKGROUND: To assess whether monthly home visits from trained volunteers could improve infant feeding practices at age 12 months, a randomised controlled trial was carried out in two disadvantaged inner city London boroughs. METHODS: Women attending baby clinics with their infants (312) were randomised to receive monthly home visits from trained volunteers over a 9-month period (intervention group) or standard professional care only (control gro…
Diet and coronary heart disease in women
Evidence on the GNP-malnutrition link
Diet and coronary heart disease in women
Budgeting for food on a low income in the UK
Food Poverty and Food Policy
Until recently the consequences of poverty for food, and the food element in social exclusion, have been sidelined in post?war Britain, both by those working on food and nutrition and by those in social policy. The article draws on ideas about entitlement and access to food elaborated in the South to illuminate the problems faced by the poor in the North in obtaining food, where the social and material conditions of poverty largely preclude econo…
Inequalities in diet and physical activity in Europe
The contribution of food, nutrition and physical activity to inequalities in health across Europe is largely unexplored. This paper summarizes cross sectional survey data on food patterns and nutrient intakes, and briefer data on physical activity, by various indicators of socio-economic status for countries across Europe. Factors are examined which underlie the outcome data seen. These include structural and material conditions and circumstances…
Making Public Health Nutrition relevant to evidence-based action
Public health nutrition enjoyed many breakthroughs in the 20th century – from the discovery of vitamins and the metabolic roles of some 60 macro- and micronutrients, to the effects of maternal and childhood diet on health over the life course. Moreover, the food shortages in the UK that were experienced during World War II gave the first opportunity to show that nutritional science could make a valuable contribution to public policy. However, pub…
Food and Poverty in Britain
Social policy and food/nutrition are both to some extent contested disciplines and areas for intervention. The role of food in poverty definition and measurement by experts and within the lived experience by those defined poor, has been a neglected component of disciplinary study and focused policy response in Britain in the latter half of the twentieth century. This paper explores the historical and contemporary complementarities and challenges,…
Short cuts to safety
A number of 'food scares' over the past decade in Europe have generated considerable debate about public understandings of food risk, and the extent to which such understandings impact on decision making. This paper reports on a focus group study of how UK consumers discuss choosing safe food. Strategies for making food choices were, in general, characterised by confidence rather than anxiety. Although concerned in an abstract way with the safety…
Local Food Projects
Poverty and Exclusion in North and South
Over the past decade there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the North, while many of the developing countries of the South have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North and South, and that these warrant further investigation and analysis.
The process of establishing, implementing and maintaining a social support infant feeding programme
Objective To describe the process of establishing and implementing a social support infant feeding intervention. Design This paper outlines the initial stages of a randomised controlled trial which assessed the effectiveness of a social support intervention on a range of infant feeding outcomes. Details are presented of the processes involved in recruiting, training and supporting a group of volunteers who provided support to the study sample. Se…
Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks
Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less attention is given to the methodological processes that facilitate the identification and examina…
Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks
This paper focuses on a case study of an 'alternative' food network based in the Abruzzo National Park, Italy, to explore how ideas of sustainable farmland management can be expressed through broader understandings of developing networks of care concerned with local economies and societies, high-quality specialist food products, particular 'traditional' farming practices and livestock breeds, as well as the ecology of a farmed landscape. The sche…
The impact of a community-based food skills intervention on cooking confidence, food preparation methods and dietary choices – an exploratory trial
Objective To evaluate the feasibility of undertaking a food skills intervention study in areas of social deprivation aimed at altering cooking confidence, food preparation methods and dietary choices. Design A standardised skills programme was implemented in community-based settings. Pre- (T1) and post-intervention (T2) and 6-month follow-up (T3) measures (7-day diaries and self-administered questionnaires) were undertaken in intervention and com…
Possible Food Economies
Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for countering established power relations in food supply systems. However, the use of the term 'alternative' as part of a persistent dualism in which it is opposed to the 'conventional' is problematic as it loses…
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food provides evidence to support the construc…
Effectiveness of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices
BACKGROUND: To assess whether monthly home visits from trained volunteers could improve infant feeding practices at age 12 months, a randomised controlled trial was carried out in two disadvantaged inner city London boroughs. METHODS: Women attending baby clinics with their infants (312) were randomised to receive monthly home visits from trained volunteers over a 9-month period (intervention group) or standard professional care only (control gro…
Doing Food Differently
(this article did not have an abstract)
Just and Sustainable? Examining the Rhetoric and Potential Realities of UK Food Security
Consumers and food security
Some Useful Sources
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
How Can Households Eat in austerity? Challenges for Social Policy in the UK
In the United Kingdom many households are seeing their food security suffer through rising food and fuel prices, economic recession and welfare reform. Household budgeting priorities by necessity tend to be towards expenditures whose default consequences are severe; food budgets are where people can and do make economies. People manage variously on minimal diets, food gifts and charitable support, but the consequences in terms of social wellbeing…
Introduction
In many countries, people face cuts in jobs, wages and social security as economic austerity policies have been implemented to reduce public expenditure following the near collapse of the banking system in 2008. At the same time, rising food and fuel prices have combined to generate increasing and sometimes extreme hardship, not only in poorer countries of the global South where the impact has been severe, but also on economically vulnerable coun…
“A Lot of People Are Struggling Privately. They Don’t Know Where to Go or They’re Not Sure of What to Do”
This qualitative study explored frontline service providers' perceptions of the nature of food insecurity in Scotland in 2015 to inform national policy and the provision of locally-based support for 'at risk' groups. A country-wide in-depth interview study was undertaken with informants from 25 health, social care, and third sector organisations. The study investigated informants' perspectives associated with how food insecurity was manifesting i…
What can Secondary Data Tell Us about Household Food Insecurity in a High-Income Country Context
In the absence of routinely collected household food insecurity data, this study investigated what could be determined about the nature and prevalence of household food insecurity in Scotland from secondary data. Secondary analysis of the Living Costs and Food Survey (2007−2012) was conducted to calculate weekly food expenditure and its ratio to equivalised income for households below average income (HBAI) and above average income (non-HBAI). Die…
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