What Does Increasing Severity of Food Insecurity Indicate for Food Insecure Families? Relationships Between Severity of Food Insecurity and Indicators of Material Hardship and Constrained Food Purchasing

Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 337-349

  Loopstra, Rachel ^a   Tarasuk, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

dietary quality; food security; low income; material hardship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FOOD; FOOD INSECURITY; FOOD SECURITY; FRUIT; HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY SURVEY MODULE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MILK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURCHASING; QUESTIONNAIRE; VEGETABLE;

EID: 84883632681     PISSN: 19320248     EISSN: 19320256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2013.817960     Document Type: Article

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