Food security measurement and governance: Assessment of the usefulness of diverse food insecurity indicators for policy makers

R Perez-Escamilla, MB Gubert, B Rogers… - Global Food …, 2017 - Elsevier
Improving food security governance depends largely on the identification of food insecurity
(FI) indicators that are useful for policy makers to improve their targeting and monitoring …

Household food insecurity: a systematic review of the measuring instruments used in epidemiological studies

ES Marques, ME Reichenheim, CL de Moraes… - Public health …, 2015 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo conduct a systematic review aimed at identifying and characterizing the
experience-based household food security scales and to synthesize their psychometric …

Household food insecurity is associated with depressive symptoms among low‐income pregnant Latinas

A Hromi‐Fiedler, A Bermúdez‐Millán… - Maternal & child …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Latinas experience high rates of poverty, household food insecurity and prenatal
depression. To date, only one USA study has examined the relationship between household …

Government transfers, COVID‐19 shock, and food insecurity: Evidence from rural households in India

A Kumar, AK Mishra, S Saroj, S Rashid - Agribusiness, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has decimated the lives and
livelihoods of people worldwide. The impact of COVID‐19 has been especially devastating …

Persistent household food insecurity, HIV, and maternal stress in peri-urban Ghana

J Garcia, A Hromi-Fiedler, RE Mazur, G Marquis… - BMC public health, 2013 - Springer
Background The mental health of caregivers has been shown to be important for improving
HIV prevention and treatment. Household food insecurity affects hundreds of millions of …

Social support modifies the association between household food insecurity and depression among Latinos with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes

G Kollannoor-Samuel, J Wagner, G Damio… - Journal of immigrant and …, 2011 - Springer
Prevalence of depression is high among individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The
objective of the current study was to identify the socio-demographic, psychosocial, cultural …

A pilot study examining food insecurity and HIV risk behaviors among individuals recently released from prison

EA Wang, GA Zhu, L Evans, A Carroll-Scott… - AIDS Education and …, 2013 - Guilford Press
Annually 700,000 individuals are released from US prison, many at risk for food insecurity
and HIV. The association between food insecurity and HIV risk behaviors has been …

[HTML][HTML] A model-based approach to identify classes and respective cutoffs of the Brazilian Household Food Insecurity Measurement Scale

ME Reichenheim, GS Interlenghi, CL Moraes… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Background: The Brazilian Household Food Insecurity Measurement Scale (EBIA)
is the main tool for assessing household food insecurity (FI) in Brazil, assisting in monitoring …

Características psicométricas de la escala de seguridad alimentaria ELCSA aplicada en Colombia, Guatemala y México.

H Melgar-Quiñonez, MCA Uribe… - Segurança …, 2010 - periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br
La inseguridad alimentaria es un fenómeno que afecta a millones de hogares en América
Latina. Herramientas válidas y confiables para su medición son esenciales para la mejor …

Adaptation of the US Household Food Security Survey Module for low-income pregnant Latinas: qualitative phase

A Hromi-Fiedler, A Bermúdez-Millán… - Journal of hunger & …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The objectives of this study were to (1) assess the face validity of the 18-item US Household
Food Security Scale Module (US HFSSM) among low-income pregnant Latinas and (2) …