Rapidly rising food prices and the experience of food insecurity in urban Ethiopia: Impacts on health and well-being

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2412-2419

  Hadley, Craig ^a   Stevenson, Edward Geoffrey Jedediah ^b,d   Tadesse, Yemesrach ^a   Belachew, Tefera ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coffee; Ethiopia; Food crisis; Food prices; Food security; Food sharing

Indexed keywords

COFFEE; COPING STRATEGY; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; FOOD MARKET; FOOD SECURITY; HEALTH IMPACT; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MENTAL HEALTH; PRICE DYNAMICS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL IMPACT; URBAN SOCIETY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; CRISIS THEORY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SECURITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; URBAN AREA; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; ETHIOPIA; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84869498848     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.018     Document Type: Article

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