Tap Water Avoidance Is Associated with Lower Food Security in the United States: Evidence from NHANES 2005-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food insecurity has profound nutritional and public health consequences. Water insecurity may exacerbate food insecurity, yet little is known about the association between water and food insecurity in the United States or other high-income countries.

Objective

This study aimed to estimate how tap water avoidance, a proxy of water insecurity, covaries with food insecurity; examine how the probability of food insecurity changed by tap water avoidance between 2005 and 2018; and test how the association between tap water avoidance and food insecurity differed across income and housing statuses.

Design

This was a secondary analysis of the cross-sectional 2005-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Participants/setting

Participants were 31,

SUBMITTER: Rosinger AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10119945 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature