Pascal Agbadi|Helga Bjørnøy Urke|Maurice B. Mittelmark
Household food security and adequacy of child diet in the food insecure region north in Ghana
University of Bergen|University of Bergen|University of Bergen
adequate diet crucial importance healthy child development food insecure areas world provision adequate child diet threatened many households sometimes experience food eat household food insecurity context food insecure northern ghana study investigated relationship level household food security achievement recommended child diet measured infant young child feeding indicatorsusing data households 623 month old children 2012 feed future baseline survey n 871 descriptive analyses assessed prevalence minimum meal frequency minimum dietary diversity minimum acceptable diet logistic regression analysis used examine association minimum acceptable diet household food security accounting effects child sex age maternal age dietary diversity literacy education household size region urbanrural setting household food security assessed household hunger scale developed usaids food nutrition technical assistance projectfortynine percent children received minimum recommended meal frequency 31 received minimum dietary diversity 17 children received minimum acceptable diet sixtyfour percent children lived food secure households significantly likely children food insecure households receive recommended minimum acceptable diet 053 95 ci 035 082 however 80 food secure households children receive minimal acceptable diet standardschildren living food secure households likely others receive minimum acceptable diet yet living food secure household guarantee child dietary adequacy since eight 10 children food secure households received less minimum acceptable diet results call research factors besides household food security search determinants child diet adequacy study least household food security weak marker child diet adequacy finding significance public health practice since calls question assumption enough food household necessarily results adequately fed children