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Harris, Ellen Williams – Black Scholar, 1991
Reviews the nutritional consequences of participation in food assistance programs, specifically the impact of these programs on the diets of African American households. Findings indicate that, although participants have better quality diets than nonparticipants, these diets are inadequate when compared to accepted dietary standards. Suggests…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Black Family, Blacks, Dietetics
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Trevino, Fernando M., Ed. – American Journal of Public Health, 1990
Analyzes results of a 1982-84 survey of health conditions and needs among Mexican Americans in the Southwest, Cuban Americans in Dade County, Florida, and Puerto Ricans in the New York City area, a sample including approximately 76 percent of the 1980 U.S. Hispanic-origin population. (DM)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Data Analysis, Health Conditions, Health Needs
Columbia Univ., New York, NY. National Center for Children in Poverty. – 1990
This sourcebook provides researchers and other interested professionals with 50 tables of statistical data supporting the findings of a 1990 report on the needs and problems of poor young children and their families. Information was drawn from primary and secondary analyses of 1987 statistical data in national databases, as well as both published…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Census Figures, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs