Social connectedness is associated with food security among peri-urban Peruvian Amazonian communities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food insecurity is a major global public health issue. Social capital has been identified as central to maintaining food security across a wide range of low- and middle-income country contexts, but few studies have examined this relationship through sociocentric network analysis.

Objective

We investigated relationships between household- and community-level social connectedness, household food security, and household income; and tested the hypothesis that social connectedness modified the relationship between income and food security.

Methods

A cross-sectional census with an embedded questionnaire to capture social relationships was conducted among eleven peri-urban communities. Community connectedness was related to study outcomes of food security and per-

SUBMITTER: Lee GO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976826 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature