Socioeconomic risks of food insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: findings from the Understanding Society Covid Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We estimated socioeconomic factors associated with food insecurity during the first year of the Covid pandemic in the UK and explored potential mechanisms explaining these associations.

Methods

Data were from the April, July, and September 2020 waves of the UK Understanding Society Covid Survey. Food insecurity was measured as 'not having access to healthy and nutritious food' and 'reporting being hungry but not eating'. Logistic regression estimated the relationship between socioeconomic factors and food insecurity. A decomposition approach explored if financial vulnerability and having Covid-19 explained associations between socioeconomics factors and food insecurity.

Results

Single parents and young people aged 16-30 years had a higher odds of reporting

SUBMITTER: Brown H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8960206 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature