Quick study guide notes (in simple terns for better understanding)

Chapter 1:

● Define a systems approach to food systems.

● Describe a public health approach to assessing food systems.

● Provide a broad overview of the US food system including key components and challenges.

● Discuss different approaches to food system challenges including public health and human rights.

● Consider key food system challenges.

Chapter 2:

● Describe major diet related conditions, their health and economic impacts, and their dietary risk factors.

● Describe some of the occupational and environmental health risks associated with food and agricultural

industries.

● Provide some examples of potential chemical and microbial hazards in food, the health effects of

food-borne contamination and points where the food supply may be contaminated.

Chapter 3:

● Understand why food production depends on ecological integrity and ecosystem services.

● Describe how food systems have affected the status of land, oceans, freshwater, genetic diversity, energy

resources, and ecosystem services.

● Be aware of some leading ways to assess the ecological integrity of the food system.

● Describe agroecology, provide specific examples of agroecology practices, and compare their

environmental impacts to that of the industrialized food system.

● Consider the impacts of environmental degradation and lack of ecological integrity on public health.

Chapter 4:

● Define health inequities and health disparities.

● Understand the health Inequities Model and the relationships between its components.

● Discuss the root causes of food system-related health inequities.

● Discuss how inequities play out in the food system.

● Discuss potential equity-related pitfalls affecting well-meaning efforts to improve the food system.

Chapter 5:

● Define household food insecurity and discuss the root causes.

● Understand the health consequences and correlates of food insecurity.

● Identify mechanism by which food insecurity is related to poor physical and mental health in children and

adults.

● Recognize and understand key nutrition assistance programs.

● Identify solutions to household food insecurity.

Chapter 6:

● Describe the concept of Community Food Security (CFS) and how it complements other food

system-related approaches.

● Understand the benefits of CFS and describe relevant examples.

● Describe the policy strategies of CFS at the city, state, and national level.

● Explain the limitations of CFS.

Other:

● Define whole grains and understand the health benefits over refined and processed grains.

● Explain the how the loss of knowledge about how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, and

prepared affects public health.

● Identify the benefits of food traditions and rituals.