Insegurança alimentar em domicílios brasileiros com crianças menores de cinco anos

• Autor(a) principal: Poblacion, Ana Paula
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Marín-León, Leticia, Segall-Corrêa, Ana Maria, Silveira, Jonas Augusto Cardoso da [UNIFESP], Taddei, Jose Augusto de Aguiar Carrazedo [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00072713; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/8372
• topic: Food Security; Social Inequity; Social Vulnerability; Health Surveys; Hunger; Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional; Iniquidade Social; Vulnerabilidade Social; Inquéritos Epidemiológicos; Fome

This article analyzes food insecurity and hunger in Brazilian families with children under five years of age. This was a nationally representative cross-sectional study using data from the National Demographic and Health Survey on Women and Children (PNDS-2006), in which the outcome variable was moderate to severe food insecurity, measured by the Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale (EBIA). Prevalence estimates and prevalence ratios were generated with 95% confidence intervals. The results showed a high prevalence of moderate to severe food insecurity, concentrated in the North and Northeast regions (30.7%), in economic classes D and E (34%), and in beneficiaries of conditional cash transfer programs (36.5%). Multivariate analysis showed that the socioeconomic relative risks (beneficiaries of conditional cash transfers), regional relative risks (North and Northeast regions), and economic relative risks (classes D and E) were 1.8, 2.0 and 2.4, respectively. Aggregation of the three risks showed 48% of families with moderate to severe food insecurity, meaning that adults and children were going hungry during the three months preceding the survey.