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Household food insecurity and child health.
- Source :
- Maternal & Child Nutrition; Apr2017, Vol. 13 Issue 2, pn/a-N.PAG, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Food insecurity, the lack of consistent access to sufficient quality and quantity of food, affects an estimated 800 million people around the world. Although household food insecurity is generally associated with poor child nutrition and health in the USA, we know less about household food insecurity and child health in developing countries. Particularly lacking is research assessing how associations between household food insecurity and children's health outcomes may differ by child age and among children beyond age 5 years in low-income settings. We use data from a population-based sample of households with children ages 3-11 years ( N = 431) in León, Nicaragua to consider how household food insecurity is associated with three measures of child health: illness, anaemia and low height-for-age. Our results provide new evidence that even mild household food insecurity is detrimental to children's health; and that child age conditions the associations between household food insecurity and child health. We find that food insecurity is especially harmful to health during early childhood, but continues to have significant associations with health into middle childhood (up to ages 7-8 years). We discuss the potential implications of these results for future child health research and policies in low-income countries. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANEMIA
AGE distribution
CHILDREN'S health
DEVELOPING countries
HEALTH status indicators
INTERVIEWING
NUTRITION
POVERTY
PROBABILITY theory
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
STATURE
LOGISTIC regression analysis
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
FOOD security
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ODDS ratio
DISEASE risk factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17408695
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Maternal & Child Nutrition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 122198106
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12301