Food insecurity and mental health: Surprising trends among community health volunteers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during the 2008 food crisis

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1450-1457

  Maes, Kenneth C ^a   Hadley, Craig ^a   Tesfaye, Fikru ^b   Shifferaw, Selamawit ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c United Nations Office for Project Services   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Ethiopia; Food insecurity; Mental health; Response shift; Urban poor; Volunteerism

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; FOOD SECURITY; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MENTAL HEALTH; PRICE DYNAMICS; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD SECURITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREND STUDY; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DATA COLLECTION; ETHIOPIA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADDIS ABABA; ETHIOPIA;

EID: 77950937498     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.01.018     Document Type: Article

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