Source: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Year: 2017
A comprehensive evaluation of a room service model at an Australian acute care facility showed results of increased energy and protein intake, decreased food waste to 12% and meal costs by 15%, and increased patient satisfaction.
Hospital Food - An opinion piece
Source: Flavour Journal
Year: 2017
This opinion piece takes a critical look at the current state of hospital food, with a focus on the UK’s National Health Service, and explores how findings from studies of high-end gastrophysics research could help to improve it. For example, ‘Eye appeal really is half the meal’, even in hospital. A number of concrete recommendations and low-cost solutions are proposed.
"Hunger was never absent": How residential school diets shaped current patterns of diabetes among Indigenous peoples in Canada
Source: Mosby, I. & Galloway, T. CMAJ 2017 August 14;189:E1043-5. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170448
Year: 2017
One of the most consistent themes in testimony provided to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was the common experience of hunger at residential schools. In his statement to the TRC, survivor Andrew Paul spoke of the unrelenting hunger he experienced during his time at Aklavik Roman Catholic Residential School: “We cried to have something good to eat before we sleep. A lot of the times the food we had was rancid, full of maggots, stink. Sometimes we would sneak away from school to go visit our aunts or uncles, just to have a piece of bannock."
Healthy Food System Infographics
Source: Kaiser Permanente and Health Care Without Harm
Year: 2016
Three infographics from Kaiser Permanente and Health Care Without Harm on healthcare food purchasing power, healthier hospital food service, and hospitals as anchor institutions, improving community food environments.
Ontario Public Institutions and On-site Food Production: Visualizing the Future for Health Care
Source: Project SOIL
Year: 2017
Project SOIL (Shared Opportunities on Institutional Lands) is a feasibility study that explores the potential of on-site food production for public institutions through arrangements with local producers, particularly where access to land for food production is limited and/or expensive.
Download the SOIL final report.
Becoming Food Aware in Hospital: A Narrative Review to Advance the Culture of Nutrition Care in Hospitals
Source: Healthcare Journal
Year: 2015
Healthcare Journal article on the Nutrition Care in Canadian Hospitals (2010–2013) study which identified the prevalence of malnutrition on admission to medical and surgical wards as 45%. The key finding was that a multi-level approach is needed to address this complex issue. The organization, staff, patients and their families need to be part of the solution to hospital malnutrition.
University Health Network Food Ecosystem Prezi
Source: University Health Network
Year: 2015
A visual presentation of the flow of food, funds and information in the Food Ecosystem in the University Health Network related to "What does it take to serve local food to our patients?"
Malnutrition in Hospitals
Source: Canadian Malnutrition Task Force
Year: 2017
Canadian Malnutrition Task Force presentation to Nourish retreat 2017 on issue of malnutrition in hospital.. Includes highlights of Nutrition Care in Hospitals Study (2010-2013) surveying 18 hospitals in 8 provinces on prevalence of malnutrition at admission, mealtime and food satisfaction surveys and barriers to food intake.
First Peoples, Second Class Treatment: The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada
Source: Wellesley Institute
Year: 2017
First Peoples, Second Class Treatment explores the role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada. We begin with an overview of the historical and contemporary contexts of racism, and the ways in which racism is fundamentally responsible for the alarming disparities in health between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. We examine Indigenous responses to racism including individual, family and community level strategies and resiliencies; health service-level responses (including Indigenous and non-Indigenous led services); efforts directed at the training of health professionals; and provincial, territorial and national-level policies and recommendations.