The impact of food insecurity on health outcomes: empirical evidence from sub-Saharan African countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food insecurity adversely affects human health, which means food security and nutrition are crucial to improving people's health outcomes. Both food insecurity and health outcomes are the policy and agenda of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, there is a lack of macro-level empirical studies (Macro-level study means studies at the broadest level using variables that represent a given country or the whole population of a country or economy as a whole. For example, if the urban population (% of the total population) of XYZ country is 30%, it is used as a proxy variable to represent represent country's urbanization level. Empirical study implies studies that employ the econometrics method, which is the application of math and statistics.) concerning the

SUBMITTER: Beyene SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9930357 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature