Food for thought: An ethnographic study of negotiating ill health and food insecurity in a UK foodbank
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.03.019
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Austerity; Ethnography; Food bank; Food insecurity; Health inequalities; Welfare reform; UK;All these keywords.
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