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Household food insecurity and diet diversity after the major 2010 landslide disaster in Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey.

Household food insecurity and diet diversity after the major 2010 landslide disaster in Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey.

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dc.contributor.author Peter Milton Rukundo
dc.contributor.author Bård A. Andreassen
dc.contributor.author Joyce K. Kikafunda
dc.contributor.author Byaruhanga Rukooko
dc.contributor.author Arne Oshaug
dc.contributor.author Per Ole Iversen
dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-10T11:55:49Z
dc.date.available 2021-01-10T11:55:49Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.issn 14752662
dc.identifier.issn 00071145
dc.identifier.uri https://combine.alvar.ug/handle/1/49214
dc.description.abstract In 2010, a landslide in Bududa, Eastern Uganda, killed about 350 people and nearly 1000 affected households were resettled in Kiryandongo, Western Uganda. A cross-sectional survey assessed household food insecurity and diet diversity among 1078 affected and controls. In Bududa, the affected had a lower adjusted mean score of food insecurity than controls - 9·2 (se 0·4) v. 12·3 (se 0·4) (P<0·01)--but higher diet diversity score (DDS) - 7·1 (se 0·1) v. 5·9 (se 0·1) (P<0·01). On controlling for disaster and covariates, recipients of relief food had higher food insecurity - 12·0 (se 0·6) v. 10·4 (se 0·3) (P=0·02)--whereas farmers had higher DDS - 6·6 (se 0·2) v. 5·6 (se 0·3) (P<0·01). Household size increased the likelihood of food insecurity (OR 1·15; 95% CI 1·00, 1·32; P<0·05) but reduced DDS (OR 0·93; 95% CI 0·87, <1·00; P=0·04). Low DDS was more likely in disaster affected (OR 4·22; 95% CI 2·65, 6·72; P<0·01) and farmers (OR 2·52; 95% CI 1·37, 4·64; P<0·01). In Kiryandongo, affected households had higher food insecurity - 12·3 (se 0·8) v. 2·6 (se 0·8) (P<0·01)--but lower DDS - 5·8 (se 0·3) v. 7·0 (se 0·3) (P=0·02). The latter reduced with increased age (OR 0·99; 95% CI 0·97, 1·00; P<0·05), lowest education (OR 0·54; 95% CI 0·31, 0·93; P=0·03), farmers (OR 0·59; 95 % CI 0·35, 0·98; P=0·04) and asset ownership (OR 0·56; 95% CI 0·39, 0·81; P<0·01). Addressing social protection could mitigate food insecurity.
dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
dc.relation.ispartof The British journal of nutrition
dc.subject DDS diet diversity score
dc.subject Diet diversity
dc.subject Household food insecurity
dc.subject Landslides
dc.subject Uganda
dc.subject.mesh Age Factors
dc.subject.mesh Agriculture
dc.subject.mesh Child
dc.subject.mesh Cross-Sectional Studies
dc.subject.mesh Diet/adverse effects
dc.subject.mesh Disaster Victims/psychology
dc.subject.mesh Disasters
dc.subject.mesh Educational Status
dc.subject.mesh Family Characteristics/ethnology
dc.subject.mesh Female
dc.subject.mesh Food Assistance
dc.subject.mesh Food Supply/economics
dc.subject.mesh Humans
dc.subject.mesh Landslides
dc.subject.mesh Male
dc.subject.mesh Middle Aged
dc.subject.mesh Nutrition Surveys
dc.subject.mesh Socioeconomic Factors
dc.subject.mesh Stress, Physiological
dc.subject.mesh Stress, Psychological/economics
dc.subject.mesh Uganda
dc.subject.mesh Workforce
dc.title Household food insecurity and diet diversity after the major 2010 landslide disaster in Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey.
dc.type journal article
dc.identifier.doi 10.1017/s0007114515004961
dc.identifier.pmid 26777212
dc.identifier.mag 2292785817
dc.identifier.pmc PMC4762237
dc.identifier.lens 079-542-818-740-447
dc.identifier.volume 115
dc.identifier.issue 4
dc.identifier.spage 718
dc.identifier.epage 729
dc.subject.lens-fields Cross-sectional study
dc.subject.lens-fields Accident prevention
dc.subject.lens-fields Food supply
dc.subject.lens-fields Food insecurity
dc.subject.lens-fields Poison control
dc.subject.lens-fields Stress psychological
dc.subject.lens-fields Injury control
dc.subject.lens-fields Family characteristics
dc.subject.lens-fields Medicine
dc.subject.lens-fields Environmental health


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