What can you do ?
work with community based organizations and antipoverty groups, advocate for policies to reduce poverty
work to supoprt the social safety net
vote, support the programmes on which food-insecure people depend
listen to what your patients will tell you and use this to inform your actions on a population health level
seek to understand your own social position, assumptions and biases, understand your power and privilege and use it in the service of others
educate yourself and others about food insecurity
work to achieve food security through social change
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6. Adapted from: Individual and Household Food Insecurity in Canada. Position of Dieticians of Canada. Dieticians of Canada 2005. available at: http://www.dietitians.ca/news/highlights_positions.asp?fn=view&id=3941&idstring=1338%7C3941%7C3398%7C1231%7C2482%7C2175%7C1952%7C2516%7C2517%7C1363%7C2451%7C1188 accessed April 17, 2006
