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Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups
Food intake inequality at the individual level is rarely analyzed in intrahousehold settings. We examine dietary diversity scores of household members with a focus on their family roles (fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and grandparents) and age groups (children, adults and elderly). Whereas theory...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10180906/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37432313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15092126 |
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author | Asma, Khatun Mst Kotani, Koji |
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description | Food intake inequality at the individual level is rarely analyzed in intrahousehold settings. We examine dietary diversity scores of household members with a focus on their family roles (fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and grandparents) and age groups (children, adults and elderly). Whereas theory suggests that members in a household should have equal dietary diversity by receiving a certain share of available foods, this research hypothesizes that they do not do so by their roles and/or age groups. We conduct questionnaire surveys, collecting sociodemographic information and dietary data by using a 24 h recall method of 3248 subjects in 811 households from 1 urban and 2 rural areas in Bangladesh. The statistical analysis demonstrates three findings. First, poor and rural people have lower dietary diversity than nonpoor and urban people, respectively. Second, grandparents (children) have lower dietary diversity than do fathers (adults), confirming the existence of intrahousehold food intake inequality by the roles and/or age groups, irrespective of poverty level and areas of residence. Third, father and mother educations are crucial determinants that raise the dietary diversity of household members; however, they do not resolve the inequality. Overall, it is suggested that awareness programs of dietary diversity shall be necessary with a target group of fathers and mothers for the betterment of intrahousehold inequality and health at the household level, contributing to sustainable development goals. |
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spelling | pubmed-101809062023-05-13 Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups Asma, Khatun Mst Kotani, Koji Nutrients Article Food intake inequality at the individual level is rarely analyzed in intrahousehold settings. We examine dietary diversity scores of household members with a focus on their family roles (fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and grandparents) and age groups (children, adults and elderly). Whereas theory suggests that members in a household should have equal dietary diversity by receiving a certain share of available foods, this research hypothesizes that they do not do so by their roles and/or age groups. We conduct questionnaire surveys, collecting sociodemographic information and dietary data by using a 24 h recall method of 3248 subjects in 811 households from 1 urban and 2 rural areas in Bangladesh. The statistical analysis demonstrates three findings. First, poor and rural people have lower dietary diversity than nonpoor and urban people, respectively. Second, grandparents (children) have lower dietary diversity than do fathers (adults), confirming the existence of intrahousehold food intake inequality by the roles and/or age groups, irrespective of poverty level and areas of residence. Third, father and mother educations are crucial determinants that raise the dietary diversity of household members; however, they do not resolve the inequality. Overall, it is suggested that awareness programs of dietary diversity shall be necessary with a target group of fathers and mothers for the betterment of intrahousehold inequality and health at the household level, contributing to sustainable development goals. MDPI 2023-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10180906/ /pubmed/37432313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15092126 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Asma, Khatun Mst Kotani, Koji Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups |
title | Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups |
title_full | Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups |
title_fullStr | Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups |
title_full_unstemmed | Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups |
title_short | Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups |
title_sort | intrahousehold food intake inequality by family roles and age groups |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10180906/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37432313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15092126 |
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