Open AccessPrevalence of food insecurity at household level and its associated factors in rural Puducherry: A cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Bharathnag Nagappa,
Tanveer Rehman,
Yamini Marimuthu,
Shanthosh Priyan,
Gokul Sarveswaran,
Sunil Kumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_233_19
Subject(s) - environmental health , socioeconomic status , poverty , cross sectional study , malnutrition , population , food insecurity , logistic regression , multivariate analysis , public health , medicine , socioeconomics , food security , demography , geography , agriculture , economic growth , economics , nursing , archaeology , pathology , sociology
Malnutrition is a consequence of food insecurity. Food insecurity in India became a public health problem due to explosive population growth and widening gap between rich and poor. It also has a detrimental effect on factors related to health and social well-being of the family.