When the flood passes, does health return? A short panel examining water and food insecurity, nutrition, and disease after an extreme flood in lowland Bolivia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Flooding is the most frequent extreme-weather disaster and disproportionately burdens marginalized populations. This article examines how food and water insecurity, blood pressure (BP), nutritional status, and diarrheal and respiratory illnesses changed during the 2 months following a historic flood in lowland Bolivia.

Methods

Drawing on longitudinal data from Tsimane' forager-horticulturalist (n = 118 household heads; n = 129 children) directly after a historic 2014 flood and ~2 months later, we use fixed effects linear regression and random effects logistic regression models to test changes in the markers of well-being and health over the recovery process.

Results

Results demonstrated that water insecurity scores decreased significantly 2 month's postfloo

SUBMITTER: Rosinger AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10116996 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature