Food Health (eBook)

John Brett is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver with a research focus on global and local food systems, food security and food justice.

Janet Chrzan is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the connections between social activities, dietary intake and maternal and child health outcomes.

INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH ETHICS

Introduction
Janet Chrzan

Research Ethics in Food Studies
Sharon Devine and John Brett

PART I: PUBLIC HEALTH AND NUTRITION

Chapter 1. Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Methods
Ellen Messer

Chapter 2. Identifying and using indicators to assess program effectiveness: Food intake, biomarkers, and nutritional evaluation
Alyson Young and Meredith Marten

Chapter 3. Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and Evaluation
Gretel Pelto

Chapter 4. Methods for Community Health Involvement
David Himelgreen, Sara Arias Steele, and Nancy Romero-Daza

Chapter 5. Understanding Famine and Severe Food Emergencies
Miriam Chaiken

Chapter 6. Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging Research
Joan Gross

Chapter 7. Food Praxis as Method
Penny Van Esterik

PART II: TECHNOLOGY AND ANALYSIS

Chapter 8. Using technology and measurement tools in nutritional anthropology of food studies
John Brett

Chapter 9. Mapping Food and Nutrition Landscapes: GIS Methods for Nutritional Anthropology
Barry Brenton

Chapter 10. Photo-Video Voice
Helen Vallianatos

Chapter 11. Digital Storytelling: Using First-Person Videos about Food in Research and Advocacy
Marty Otanez

Chapter 12. Accessing and Using Secondary Quantitative Data from the Internet
James Wilson and Kristen Borre

Chapter 13. Using Secondary Data in Nutritional Anthropology Research:  Enhancing Ethnographic and Formative Research
Kristen Borre and James Wilson

Chapter 14. Designing food insecurity scales from the ground up: An introduction and working example of building and testing food insecurity scales in anthropological research
Craig Hadley and Lesley Jo Weaver