Household food security and adequacy of child diet in the food insecure region north in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Adequate diet is of crucial importance for healthy child development. In food insecure areas of the world, the provision of adequate child diet is threatened in the many households that sometimes experience having no food at all to eat (household food insecurity). In the context of food insecure northern Ghana, this study investigated the relationship between level of household food security and achievement of recommended child diet as measured by WHO Infant and Young Child Feeding Indicators.

Methods

Using data from households and 6-23 month old children in the 2012 Feed the Future baseline survey (n = 871), descriptive analyses assessed the prevalence of minimum meal frequency; minimum dietary diversity, and minimum acceptable diet. Logistic regre

SUBMITTER: Agbadi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5426760 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature