Gender, skin color, and household composition explain inequities in household food insecurity in Brazil

Lissandra Amorim Santos, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Camilla Christine de Souza Cherol, Aline Alves Ferreira and Rosana Salles-Costa

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023, vol. 3, issue 10, 1-21

Abstract: It is well known that female-headed households (FHHs) are more likely to experience food insecurity (FI) than male-headed households (MHHs), however there is a dearth of evidence on how gender intersects with other social determinants of FI. Thus, this paper investigated changes in the prevalence of household FI in Brazil from 2004 to 2018 by the intersection of gender, race/skin color and marital status of the household reference person. Data from three cross-sectional nationally representative surveys that assessed the status of FI using the Brazilian Household Food Insecurity Measurement Scale were analyzed (N2004 = 107,731; N2013 = 115,108, N2018 = 57,204). Multinomial logistic regression models were used to examine the relationship between profiles of gender, race/skin color, marital status of the head of the household with household FI stratified by the presence of children

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002324

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