Prof in Public Health @ SNM&P RGU - food insecurity, poverty, social justice & health - fiddler player, daughter, sister, wife, mother & WT lover. Views my own.
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Flora Douglas retweeted
When parents are skipping meals because they cannot afford formula, when midwives worry about feeds being kept longer than is safe because families cannot afford to waste, "excessive" maternity pay isn't the problem.
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Flora Douglas retweeted
Come and work with a great research team that is led by @Kenned4Catriona and includes @FloraD
Associate Professor (RGU06137)
We are offering an opportunity to join our great team as an Associate Professor with expertise and a proven track record in health and wellbeing research & quantitative methods.
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Flora Douglas retweeted
Could food banks be relegated to the history books? @sabineegoodwin in @BigIssue
@scotgov @povinequalscot @CitAdviceScot @nourishscotland @TrussellScot
#CashFirst
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We made this short film about maternal & infant food insecurity to mark the occasion of @FranklyLess's recent visiting fellowship from Canada 2 Scotland/UK & Aberdeen. Thanks 2 Lesley and @Abernecessities for their time & expertise shared so generously in the making of this film.
The latest episode of Research Revealed will be released on Wednesday.
It highlights research at @RGUNMandP, focusing on a project to explore the hidden nature of food insecurity amongst young mothers in the North East and across the UK.
#ResearchRGU | #ResearchRevealed
ALT A child holding the hand of his mother.
ALT Professor Flora Douglas and Dr Lesley Frank
ALT Danielle Fletcher-Horn and Dr Lesley Frank
ALT A child with her mother playing with a daffodil.
Grateful 2 @FranklyLess and Dani and Vicky from Abercessities too for their input to our @AHRDC 'Understanding Food Insecurity in Aberdeen' webinar where infant food insecurity was spotlighted as an area of deep public health concern needing more attention in our city.
And for @FranklyLess's time too last week enabling our @RGUNMandP midwifery students explore the implications for midwifery practice associated with the presence of household food insecurity in high income countries on maternal and infant health. 🙏🙏
This great video by @IFAN typifies being a ‘critical friend’ 4 people living in poverty & food insecurity, ie. pointing out, from front line experience of doing something practical 2 help people in food crisis, that food banks are not a sustainable solution to the problem.
Our latest data (ifanuk.org/430f84s) demonstrates just how vital it is for @10DowningStreet #FarmToForkSummit to prioritise a #cashfirst approach to #foodinsecurity....
@UKSustain @Food_Foundation @readifood @EarlsfieldFood2 @broke_not
Flora Douglas retweeted
Our latest data (ifanuk.org/430f84s) demonstrates just how vital it is for @10DowningStreet #FarmToForkSummit to prioritise a #cashfirst approach to #foodinsecurity....
@UKSustain @Food_Foundation @readifood @EarlsfieldFood2 @broke_not
Your excellent work in Canada on the hidden public health crisis of infant food insecurity in high income countries, that’s been hiding in plain sight for too long in the UK, provides good evidence about what would help parents most 2 cope with it - more money in their pockets.
Great 2 have you visit us in Scotland this month sharing research insights & perspectives at our @ahdrc ‘Understanding food insecurity in Aberdeen’ webinar last week. You gave us much food for thought, and great pointers at solutions that are needed and, make a difference.
Looking forward to our workshop with @RGUNMandP midwifery students this Friday exploring the implications of household food insecurity on the health and well-being of pregnant women and their infants, be they bottle or breast fed. 🙏
Flora Douglas retweeted
We need to talk about baby formula and what the rising prices are doing to families. Our @skynews piece on the UK’s “hidden crisis”👇
youtu.be/LJYBTQ0n6S4
Produced by @emupton
Shot/cut by @Shoot_Editor
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We published this short briefing on reducing infant and maternal food insecurity in Scotland earlier this week -
Find out more at foodaidnetwork.org.uk/briefi…
@1stepsnutrition @LindsayGrahamUK @FloraD @mariaammarshall #CashFirst
More sobering news from IFAN, that shouldn’t really be a surprise, but important 2 continue 2 highlight. UK society & our governance structures have normalised charity food aid to manage poverty for a decade+, & despite lots of heroic local effort it’s not sustainable or working!
New group of independent food banks has reported an unprecedented increase in demand through December 2022 and into the new year.
Latest @IFAN_UK data - foodaidnetwork.org.uk/data
@mirandeee @JonUngoedThomas @ObserverUK
#CashFirst
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Delighted that Lindsay & Susan Webb @NHSGrampian's Director of Public Health will be joining me as a panel members at this event too. I'm grateful 4 their time & expert input. Looking forward to the discussion with audience members too!
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Good 2 see a focus on socio-economic & political determinants of infant feeding practices, & the need for govts & society 2 adequately value infant feeding labour. That ‘breastfeeding is not cost free’ was also a welcome message 2 hear @ #ProtectBreastfeeding @TheLancet launch!
Breastfeeding “ignored by mainstream economic accounting”.
The treatment of breastfeeding as free/cost less and a “lifestyle choice” is “completely perverse”. It means governments do not recognise value of breastfeeding. #ProtectBreastfeeding
Great 2 C this messaging by @FEED to @APPGIFI about the importance maternal household food security as a pre-requisite for infant food security, regardless of whether parents choose to breast or formula feed. @FranklyLess work on this issue in Canada is worth noting too.
Food insecurity undermines breastfeeding, & women cannot be a secure food source for their infant if they themselves are food insecure #endinfantfoodinsecurity #supportMums
Delighted to write this blog for @ClareCable @QNI_Scotland about maternal & infant food insecurity as it emerged in our @nhscharity study with parents & early years health professionals about income maximisation. A public health issue that urgently needs more attention!
📣NEW BLOG!📣
Read Professor Flora Douglas' blog on maternal and infant food insecurity. (@FloraD)
qnis.org.uk/blog/maternal-an…
Very timely given the publication of the @iHealthVisiting State of Health Visiting Report.
@RobertGordonUni @RGUParaSoc @NursingRgu @RGUMidSoc @MidwivesRGU
Flora Douglas retweeted
TY @alisonthewliss for asking @DHSCgovuk the adequacy of #HealthyStart payments in the context of food price inflation, incl ⬆️ formula prices @Food_Foundation @UKSustain @feedukorg @LindsayGrahamUK @FloraD @Shona_Goudie @babyfriendly @IFAN_UK theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id…
Food insecurity, chronic and episodic, has got steadily worse over the last decade causing unnecessary misery and ill health for far too many people in the UK.
"Going hungry, even just a few times, is linked to decreased immunity and poorer mental and physical health, and can cause malnutrition, heart disease and fatigue." #CashFirst @NHSConfed
nhsconfed.org/long-reads/why…