Household Food Insecurity: Comparison between Families with and without Members with Disabilities

Jong Eun Park, So Young Kim, Se Hee Kim, Eun Ju Jeoung and Jong Hyock Park
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Jong Eun Park: Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
So Young Kim: Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Se Hee Kim: Department of Food and Nutrition, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Eun Ju Jeoung: Department of Food and Nutrition, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Jong Hyock Park: College of Medicine/Graduate School of Health Science Business Convergence, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 17, 1-16

Abstract: Although the high rate of food insecurity among people with disabilities and their households has emerged as an important concern in public health and nutrition policy, the available data on these issues are still too limited to fully understand this phenomenon. This study aimed to compare the prevalence of food insecurity between households with and without persons with disabilities and to explore which sociodemographic and disability characteristics are associated with household food insecurity among households with members with disabilities. The data of 2690 households with and without members with disabilities from the 2013 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were analyzed. Household food insecurity was more prevalent among households including persons with disabilities than among those without such members. The likelihood of experiencing food insecurity was especially high in households having a female head with a disability (odds ratio (OR) = 1.98); working-age adults with disabilities (OR = 1.70); members with disabilities who were not economically active (OR = 1.53); and members with mental disabilities (OR = 2.81), disabilities involving internal organs (OR = 4.38), or severe (grades 1–3) disabilities (OR = 1.73). The findings indicate that the disability status and sociodemographic characteristics of disabled family members are closely associated with household food security status.

Keywords: household food insecurity; disability; disability type; Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; Household Food Security Survey Module (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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