Food insecurity, childhood illness and maternal emotional distress in Ethiopia.

Water insecurity in 3 dimensions: an anthropological perspective on water and women's psychosocial distress in Ethiopia.

Water insecurity is a primary underlying determinant of global health disparities. While public health research on water insecurity has focused mainly on two dimensions, water access and adequacy, an anthropological perspective highlights the cultural or lifestyle dimension of water insecurity, and its implications for access/adequacy and for the phenomenology of water insecurity. Recent work i...

Large Scale Environmental Assessment and Degradation Management: The Case of Food Insecurity in Ethiopia

Food Insecurity and Glycemic Control Among Low-Income Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

OBJECTIVE To determine whether food insecurity--the inability to reliably afford safe and nutritious food--is associated with poor glycemic control and whether this association is mediated by difficulty following a healthy diet, diabetes self-efficacy, or emotional distress related to diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used multivariable regression models to examine the association betw...

Community Water Improvement, Household Water Insecurity, and Women's Psychological Distress: An Intervention and Control Study in Ethiopia.

BACKGROUND Over 650 million people worldwide lack access to safe water supplies, and even among those who have gained access to 'improved' sources, water may be seasonally unreliable, far from homes, expensive, and provide insufficient quantity. Measurement of water access at the level of communities and households remains crude, and better measures of household water insecurity are urgently ne...

Household food insecurity is associated with both body mass index and middle upper-arm circumference of mothers in northwest Ethiopia: a comparative study

BACKGROUND Food insecurity and associated malnutrition result in serious health problems in developing countries. This study determined levels of maternal undernutrition and its association with food insecurity in northwest Ethiopia. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a community-based comparative cross-sectional study conducted May 24-July 20, 2013. Multistage random sampling was used to select ...