The effectiveness of a short form of the household food security scale

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1231-1234

  Blumberg, Stephen J ^a   Bialostosky, Karil ^a   Hamilton, William L ^b   Briefel, Ronette R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOOD; HOUSEHOLD; HUNGER; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE;

EID: 0032794711     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.89.8.1231     Document Type: Article

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