Household food security is associated with agricultural livelihoods and diet quality in a marginalized community of rural bedouins in Lebanon

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1666-1671

  Ghattas, Hala ^a   Barbour, Jessica M ^a   Nord, Mark ^b   Zurayk, Rami ^a   Sahyoun, Nadine R ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; BREAD; CEREAL; CHICKEN; CHICKEN MEAT; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EGG; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SECURITY; FRUIT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LEBANON; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MILK; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULSE RATE; RICE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; VEGETABLE; WILD PLANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARABS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INCOME; LEBANON; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885744655     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.113.176388     Document Type: Article

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