Maternal and infant food insecurity. [Blog post]

Douglas, Flora

Abstract

In 2021, I was both privileged and humbled to lead a qualitative research study that involved interviewing parents, health visitors, community midwives, and family nurse practitioners about their experiences of both enacting, and benefiting from, the so-called Financial Inclusion Pathway (FIP). The FIP is designed as one of several strategies that operate within Local Child Poverty Action Plans which all Scottish territorial health boards are required to produce and act on in collaboration with their respective local authorities. The FIP aims, through routine health professional enquiry, to identify families with children under five who are experiencing financial hardship and offer onward referral for financial advice and support to help increase their household incomes. Our study aimed to find out how NHS Grampian's FIP was working in practice, and in this blog, I offer my reflections on its key learning points.

Citation

DOUGLAS, F. 2023. Maternal and infant food insecurity. [Blog post]. Posted on The Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland website [online], 2nd February 2023. Available from: https://www.qnis.org.uk/blog/maternal-and-infant-food-insecurity/

• Digital Artefact Type: Blog Post
• Deposit Date: May 29, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 14, 2023
• Keywords: Food poverty; Food insecurity; Young children and infant nutrition; Scotland
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1976817
• External URL: https://www.qnis.org.uk/blog/maternal-and-infant-food-insecurity/