Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy (CHOP) Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Research Service, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Ecol Food Nutr. 2024 Sep-Oct;63(5):564-584. doi: 10.1080/03670244.2024.2387339. Epub 2024 Aug 4.
Food security among rural veteran populations is an understudied subject. This study uses qualitative data from 106 semi-structured interviews conducted with staff from programs at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other federal agencies, staff from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), food security researchers, and food insecure veterans to identify the barriers to and facilitators for rural veteran food security. Barriers identified included external, structural barriers that exist in rural areas; internal barriers to using food assistance, such as feeling stigmatized; and barriers related to other social determinants of health, including a lack of education, employment, or housing stability.
农村退伍军人的粮食安全是一个研究不足的课题。本研究使用了来自美国退伍军人事务部（VA）和其他联邦机构项目的工作人员、非政府组织（NGO）的工作人员、粮食安全研究人员和粮食不安全退伍军人的 106 次半结构化访谈的定性数据，以确定农村退伍军人粮食安全的障碍和促进因素。确定的障碍包括农村地区存在的外部结构性障碍；使用粮食援助的内在障碍，如感到耻辱；以及与其他健康决定因素相关的障碍，包括缺乏教育、就业或住房稳定。
