Food Insecurity during the Gestational Period and Factors Associated with Maternal and Child Health
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The main international measure to achieve food security is based on the first United Nations Millennium Development Goals (eradicate hunger and poverty) [2], concurrent with the human right to proper food. It is estimated that one billion people in the world do not have access to sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs or that they live in a situation of continuous hunger, a situation that indicates a severe food insecurity. [3]. Food security / insecurity can be measured through individual dietary intake, anthropometry, food availability, among others. In international surveys the most used instrument to measure this insecurity is the “Household Food Security Survey Module”.
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