BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Adequate diet is of crucial importance for healthy child development. In food insecure areas of the world, the provision of adequate child diet is threatened in the many households that sometimes experience having no food at all to eat (household food insecurity). In the context of food insecure northern Ghana, this study investigated the relationship between level of ...

Indonesia is facing household-level double burden malnutrition. This study aimed at examining (1) household-level double burden for the mother-child and father-child pairs; (2) risk of adiposity of double burden households; and (3) associated dietary factors. Subjects were 5th and 6th grade elementary school children (n = 242), their mothers (n = 242), and their fathers (n = 225) in five commun...

The study objective was to estimate food and nutrient availability in Bolivian households using data from the nationally representative under the Programme for the household surveys undertaken yearly from 1999 to 2002 Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean (MECOVI). In the present study, we analysed data from four repeated, cross-secti...

background: disparities in health may relate to differences in nutrition. among dietary determinants, socioeconomic status (ses) plays an important role. therefore, this study was aimed to investigate the association between ses and cooking pattern and consumed food among rural and urban iranian households.     methods: overall, 14,136 households were selected through single-stage cluster sampl...

SUMMARY This study examined food security among HIV/AIDS-impacted households (compared to non-HIV/AIDS-impacted households) in rural South Africa, with a particular focus on the role of savanna woodland resources (e.g. wild foods) in shaping household resilience following the death of a prime-age adult. The study was conducted in the Agincourt health and demographic surveillance site in the rur...

Using data from a three-year study of socioeconomic factors influencing hunting in 23 indigenous communities, we assess the influence of indigenous and Christian beliefs and practices on dietary taboos among Makushi and Wapishana peoples in the Guyanese Amazon. We found that members of Evangelical and established (Anglican and Catholic) churches do not differ significantly in terms of their adh...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to analyse the associations between the food variety score (FVS), dietary diversity score (DDS) and nutritional status of children, and to assess the associations between FVS, DDS and socioeconomic status (SES) on a household level. The study also assessed urban and rural differences in FVS and DDS. DESIGN Cross-sectional studies in 1994/95, including a...

OBJECTIVE To conduct the first national dietary survey and examine inter-island differences in and relationships between iron consumption and reports of anemia. DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 144 households, randomly selected from electoral lists for Grand Turk (n=48), Providenciales (n=46), and Middle Caicos (n=50), participated in the survey. Food consumption (via food frequency questionnair...