Healthy start: The use of welfare food vouchers by low-income parents in England

Social Policy and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 457-469

  Lucas, Patricia J ^a   Jessiman, Tricia ^a   Cameron, Ailsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

child; family; Food welfare; health; poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930384262     PISSN: 14747464     EISSN: 14753073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746415000020     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Acheson, D. (1998) Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health, Norwich: The Stationery Office.
2. Bank of England (2014) Inflation Calculator, available at http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/Pages/inflation/calculator/flash/default.aspx [Accessed 04.07.14 2014].
3. Black, A. P., Brimblecombe, J., Eyles, H., Morris, P., Vally, H. and O' Dea, K. (2012) 'Food subsidy programs and the health and nutritional status of disadvantaged families in high income countries: a systematic review', BMC Public Health, 12, 1099.
4. Chase, E. and Walker, R. (2013) 'The co-construction of shame in the context of poverty: beyond a threat to the social bond', Sociology, 47, 4, 739-54.
5. Chatterji, P. and Brooks-Gunn, J. (2004) 'WIC participation, breastfeeding practices, and well-child care among unmarried, low-income mothers', American Journal of Public Health, 94, 8, 1324-7.
6. Currie, J. (1994) 'Welfare and the well-being of children: the relative effectiveness of cash and in-kind transfers', Tax Policy and the Economy, 8, 1-43.
7. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2013) Family Food 2012, London: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
8. Department for Work and Pensions (2010) Universal Credit: Welfare that Works, cm 7957, Norwich: The Stationery Office.
9. Department for Work and Pensions (2012) Universal Credit: The Impact on Passported Benefits, report by the Social Security Advisory Committee and response by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, cm 8332, Norwich: The Stationery Office.
10. Department of Health (2000) The National Fruit Scheme, available at http://webarchive.nationalarchives. gov.uk/+/www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Healthimprovement/FiveADay/FiveADaygeneralin formation/DH-4002149.
11. Department of Health (2002a) Healthy Start: Proposals for the Reform of the Welfare Food Scheme, London: Department of Health.
12. Department of Health (2002b) Scientific Review of the Welfare Food Scheme, London: The Stationery Office.
13. Department of Health (2010) Healthy Start, Equality Impact Assessment, London: Department of Health.
14. Department of Health (2013) Delivering a Healthy Start for Pregnant Women, New Mums, Babies and Young Children, London: Department of Health.
15. Devaney, B. L., Ellwood, M. R. and Love, J. M. (1997) 'Programs that mitigate the effects of poverty on children', Future of Children, 7, 2, 88-112.
16. Dowler, E. (1997) 'Budgeting for food on a low income in the UK: the case of lone-parent families', Food Policy, 22, 5, 405-17.
17. Food and Nutrition Service (2005)Women, Infants and Children, available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/[accessed 13.04.2012].
18. Ford, F. A., Mouratidou, T., Wademan, S. E. and Fraser, R. B. (2009) 'Effect of the introduction of "Healthy Start" on dietary behaviour during and after pregnancy: early results from the "before and after" Sheffield study', British Journal of Nutrition, 101, 1828-36.
19. Fowles, E. R. and Fowles, S. L. (2008) 'Healthy eating during pregnancy: determinants and supportive strategies', Journal of Community Health Nursing, 25, 3, 138-52.
20. Government Accountability Office (2008) Food Stamp Program:Options forDelivering Financial Incentives to Participants for Purchasing Targeted Foods, Report to the Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, US Senate, Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office.
21. Gregg, P., Waldfogel, J. andWashbrook, E. (2006) 'Family expenditures post-welfare reform in the UK: are low-income families starting to catch up?', Labour Economics, 13, 6, 721-46.
22. Griffith, R., von Hinke Kessler Scholder, S. and Smith, S. (2014) Getting a Healthy Start? Nudge Versus Economic Incentives, Working Paper No. 14/328, Bristol: The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol.
23. Hayter, A. K., Draper, A. K., Ohly, H. R., Rees, G. A., Pettinger, C., McGlone, P. and Watt, R. G. (2013) 'A qualitative study exploring parental accounts of feeding pre-school children in two low-income populations in the UK', Maternal and Child Nutrition, published on-line before print, doi:10.1111/mcn.12017.
24. Hoynes, H., Page, M. and Stevens, A. (2011) 'Can targeted transfers improve birth outcomes? Evidence from the introduction of the WIC program', Journal of Public Economics, 95, 7-8, 813-27.
25. Inglis, V., Ball, K. and Crawford, D. (2009) 'Does modifying the household food budget predict changes in the healthfulness of purchasing choices among low-and high-income women?', Appetite, 52, 2, 273-9.
26. Jensen, J. D., Hartmann, H., DeMul, A., Schuit, A., Brug, J. and Consortium, E. (2011) 'Economic incentives and nutritional behavior of children in the school setting: a systematic review', Nutrition Reviews, 69, 11, 660-74.
27. Jessiman, T., Cameron, A., Wiggins, M. and Lucas, P. J. (2013) 'A qualitative study of uptake of free vitamins in England', Archives of Disease in Childhood, 98, 8, 587-91.
28. Khanani, I., Elam, J., Hearn, R., Jones, C. and Maseru, N. (2010) 'The impact of prenatal WIC participation on infant mortality and racial disparities', American Journal of Public Health, 100, S1, S204-9.
29. Lief Benderley, B (2011) A Bargain or a Burden? How Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program Design Affects the Women Who Participate in Them, Washington, DC: RFB Health, The World Bank, http://www.rbfhealth.org/sites/rbf/files/cct%20and%20women.pdf.
30. Lucas, P., Jessiman, T., Cameron, A., Wiggins, M., Hollingworth, K. and Austerberry, C. (2013) Healthy Start Vouchers Study: The Views and Experiences of Parents, Professionals and Small Retailers in England, http://www.bris.ac.uk/sps/research/projects/completed/2013/finalreport.pdf, Bristol: University of Bristol.
31. McAndrew, A., Thompson, J., Fellows, L., Large, A., Speed, S. and Renfrew, M. (2012) Infant Feeding Survey 2010, Leeds: The NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care.
32. Ritchie, J. (2003) 'The application of qualitative methods to social research', in J. Ritchie and J. Lewis (eds.), Qualitative Research Practice, London: Sage, pp. 24-46.
33. Shemilt, I., Harvey, I., Shepstone, L., Swift, L., Reading, R., Mugford, M., Belderson, P., Norris, N., Thoburn, J. and Robinson, J. (2004) 'A national evaluation of school breakfast clubs: evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial and an observational analysis', Child Care, Health and Development, 30, 5, 413-27.
34. Skafida, V. and Treanor, M. C. (2014) 'Do changes in objective and subjective family income predict change in children's diets over time? Unique insights using a longitudinal cohort study and fixed effects analysis', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68, 6, 534-41.
35. Sutton, E., Pemberton, S., Fahmy, E. and Tamiya, Y. (2014) 'Stigma, shame and the experience of poverty in Japan and the United Kingdom', Social Policy and Society, 13, 1, 143-54.
36. Whaley, S., Richie, L., Spector, P. and Gomez, J. (2012) 'Revised WIC package improves diets of WIC families', Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 44, 3, 204-9.