Reliability and validity of a short form household food security scale in a Caribbean community

BMC Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-9

  Gulliford, Martin C ^a   Mahabir, Deepak ^b   Rocke, Brian ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Ministry of Health Laventille   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Food insecurity; Food security; Questionnaires; Reliability; Trinidad and Tobago; Validity; West Indies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; DATA ANALYSIS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SAFETY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; NUTRITION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY;

EID: 4544292534     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-4-22     Document Type: Article

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