The Measurement of Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review

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Carrillo Álvarez, Elena
Costa, Lluís
Milà-Villarroel, Raimon
Shankar Krishnan, Nithya
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Carrillo Álvarez, Elena;
Salinas-Roca, Blanca;
Costa, Lluís;
Milà-Villarroel, Raimon;
Shankar Krishnan, Nithya;
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(2021)
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The Measurement of Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, núm. 18, 9829.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189829.
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The measurement of food insecurity is essential to monitor the prevalence, risk factors,
consequences and effects of food insecurity and the interventions and policies implemented to tackle
it. Yet, how best to apply it remains an unsettled issue due to the multifaceted and context-dependent
nature of food insecurity. We report a scoping review of measures of food insecurity at the individual
and household level in high-income countries with the final purpose of facilitating a catalogue of
instruments to be used by both researchers and practitioners. The scoping review was conducted
following the methodological framework of Arksey and O’Malley and the Joanna Briggs Institute
guidelines. We included all types of documents published between 2000–2020 using instruments
that estimate food insecurity at both individual and household level in high-income countries, and
with respondents including adolescents, adults, and elderly. We identified a total of 23 measurement
strategies being used in 33 peer-reviewed publications and 114 documents from the grey literature.
Our results show that most measures focus on the access dimension of food insecurity and that
further research is required to develop measures that incorporate aspects of quality of dietary intake
and relevant individual, household and social conditions related to food insecurity.
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