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- Title
Niveles de inseguridad alimentaria en los hogares y características asociadas en niños de 0 a 59 meses en Colombia.
- Authors
PORTILLA PORTILLA, EDWIN MAURICIO; LLANOS REDONDO, MAYERLY; GUTIERREZ LESMES, OSCAR ALEXANDER; LLANOS REDONDO, ANDRÉS; MARTÍNEZ TORRES, JAVIER
- Abstract
Objective: To determine the levels of household food insecurity in children from 0 to 59 months old in Colombia and their associated sociodemographic factors. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was carried out, in terms of a secondary analysis of the National Survey of the Nutritional Situation in Colombia from 2015, a total of 12 894 young children between 0 and 59 months old were evaluated using the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale; Sociodemographic and economic characteristics were evaluated; the food insecurity was examined by each of the sociode- mographic variables; Poisson regression multivariate models were used to estimate associ- ations. Results: The average age was 29,6 months, and 48,8 % were girls; the results indicated that 59,9 % of children lived in households with some degree of food insecurity (severe: 8,8 %, moderate: 13,8 %, and mild: 37,3 %); it was found that the children whose parents had an educational level before elementary school and those belonging to quartile 1 of wealth were most associated with having food insecurity in their households. Conclusions: Overall, the proportion of children residing in households with some degree of food insecurity in Colombia is high.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; FOOD security; POISSON regression; CHILD nutrition; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; EDUCATIONAL attainment
- Publication
Salud Uninorte, 2024, Vol 40, Issue 2, p512
- ISSN
0120-5552
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14482/sun.40.02.407.298