Validation of household food insecurity access scale - Sri Lanka validation of HFIAS-SL
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Household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS).
In 1996, the World Food Summit reaffirmed the inalienable right that each person across the globe has to access safe, adequate and nutritious food. At that time a goal was established to reduce by half the number of undernourished persons worldwide by 2015, in other words the year that we are now commencing. Different countries and organisations considered the necessity of reaching consensus an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2579-1451,1391-3174
DOI: 10.4038/jccpsl.v19i2.7580