Household food insecurity associated with stunting and underweight among preschool children in Antioquia, Colombia Inseguridad alimentaria en los hogares asociada con el retraso del crecimiento y el bajo peso en niños preescolares de Antioquia, Colombia

• Main Authors: Michelle Hackett, Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez, Martha Cecilia Álvarez
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Seguridad alimentaria; preescolar; trastornos de nutrición del niño; validez de las pruebas; Colombia; Food security; child preschool; child malnutrition; validity of tests; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Bajos
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/5c2a19d0aa944bb692d1a026eeaad91e

OBJECTIVE: To assess criterion validity of a household food security scale through its associations with child health status in participants of the Colombian Plan for Improving Food and Nutrition in Antioquia (Mejoramiento Alimentario y Nutricional de Antioquia (MANA)). METHODS: A 12-item household...