Definition: Uncertain, limited, or unstable access to food that is: adequate in quantity and in nutritional quality; culturally acceptable; safe and acquired in socially acceptable ways. 

Definition: Currently consistently housed but experiencing any of the following circumstances in the last 12 months: behind on rent or mortgage, 3 or more relocations, housing cost burden, homelessness, or risk of eviction. 

Definition of Sheltered Homelessness:  Because of economic difficulties, currently living in a shelter, motel, temporary or transitional living situation, scattered-site housing, or not having a consistent place to sleep at night.

Definition of Unsheltered Homelessness: Residing in a place not meant for human habitation, such as cars, parks, sidewalks, abandoned buildings, on the street. 

Definition: Housing does not meet habitability standards. 

Definition: Uncertain, limited, or no access to safe, reliable, accessible, affordable, and socially acceptable transportation infrastructure and modalities necessary for maintaining one’s health, well-being, or livelihood.

Definition: A state of being wherein a person has difficulty fully meeting current and/or ongoing financial obligations and/or does not feel secure in their financial future.

Definition: The lack of specific socially perceived basic physical necessities.

Definition of Less Than High School Education: Failing to meet academic criteria for high school diploma or equivalent.

Definition of Unemployment: Jobless, looking for a job, and available for work.

Definition of Veteran: Having served as active military and honorably released or discharged.

Definition: Occurs when a person perceives the demands of environmental stimuli to be greater than their ability to meet, mitigate, or alter those demands

Definition of Social Connection: An umbrella term that encompasses the structural, functional, and quality aspects of how individuals connect to each other.

Definition of Social Isolation: Is objectively being alone, having few relationships, or infrequent social contact.

Definition of Loneliness: Is subjectively feeling alone. The discrepancy between one’s desired level of connection and one’s actual level.

Definition of Social Support: The actual or perceived availability of resources (e.g., informational, tangible, emotional) from others. Four types of social supportive behaviors: emotional, instrumental, informational, and appraisal.

Definition: Describes physical violence, sexual violence, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse. Often including a pattern of methods and tactics to gain and maintain power and control over the other person.

Definition: An intentional act or failure to act by a caregiver or another person in a relationship involving an expectation of trust that causes or creates a risk of harm to an older adult and can be in the form of physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, and neglect by someone in a caregiving role.

Healthy People 2030 Health Literacy Definitions

Definition of Personal Health Literacy: The degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

Definition of Organizational Health Literacy: The degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

Definition: Documentation of presence and type of insurance.