Evaluación de seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en familias del distrito de Los Morochucos en Ayacucho, Perú

Pillaca, Susan; Villanueva, María

doi:10.17843/rpmesp.2015.321.1577

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“…In addition, the results of AEM and NTM are lower than the values found by Pillaca & Villanueva (2015); in the district of Los Morochucos (Ayacucho), where it was obtained that 96.4% of mothers practiced EB up to 6 months. The explanation of this percentage difference would be related to geo-social factors, considering the fact that mothers in AEM and NTM (coastal area) could not always comply with the practice of breastfeeding, because their children stay at home while they work, which is opposite to the context of the study cited in Ayacucho (mountain area), where mothers take their children with them (on their backs) during their daily work.…”

Section: Food Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 60%

Food and nutritional security in the villages Nuevo Tambo de Mora and Alto El Molino, Ica, Peru

Pillaca-Medina

2018

Food and Energy Security

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Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) can be affected at any time and place in the world, including as a result of various natural disasters. The aim of this study is to determine the FNS situation in families from the two villages (Ica, Peru) Nuevo Tambo de Mora (NTM) and Alto El Molino (AEM) in 2015 and the dimensions of FNS (availability, access, consumption, biological use, and stability). This is a quantitative, descriptive, observational, cross-sectional, and retrospective study. Families with at least one child under 12 years of age were included. Sampling was probabilistic and systematic (363 families in AEM and 241 in NTM). Two questionnaires were used: the first comprising availability and access; and the second comprising consumption, biological utilization, and stability. FNS was observed in 33.6% of the population of AEM and 47.3% in NTM, while 17.9% and 14.5% of moderate food insecurity (FI) and severe FI, respectively, were observed in AEM and NTM. FI was reported in 6.9% in AEM and 3.3% in NTM. Food was available in markets and stores. More than half of the families had a monthly income lesser than the officially minimum established in Peru. Exclusive breastfeeding (EB) until 6 months old was predominant in both communities: 80.1% in NTM and 77.1% in AM. More than 70%reported not consuming fruits and vegetables. Eighty-six percent of surveyed inhabitants in AEM and 78% in NTM washed their hands before preparing food. The main cause of food shortages was the increase in price, reported by 51.8% in NTM and 48.6% in AEM. Half of the families in NTM and one-sixth of AEM presented FI at various levels, among which severe FI is emphasized in households with the larger number of members, showing through the five-dimensional evaluation of the FNS. K E Y W O R D Sfood security, breastfeeding, handwashing, Peru

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Section: Food Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 60%

Food and nutritional security in the villages Nuevo Tambo de Mora and Alto El Molino, Ica, Peru

Pillaca-Medina

2018

Food and Energy Security

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“…Food insecurity studies Latin America largely focus on examining frequency, risk factors and outcome data [ 21 , 23 , 24 , 26 , 28 , 31 , 50 , 53 – 57 ], with few qualitative studies examining subjective experiences [ 15 , 20 , 21 ]. In this study, low income mothers of small children shared passages of their daily life shaped by the need to manage scarce resources.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another stressor in our study was water insecurity, defined as having restrictions in the access to clean water that is estimated to affect more than 600 million people in the world [ 63 ]. A study showed that in a community of Ayacucho, Perú, 39% of households had food insecurity and none had access to safe drinking water [ 28 ]. Kirkpatrick and Tarasov [ 64 ] reported that low income families give up basic household services to purchase food.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Food insecurity in most of Latin America is more common than in the United States where rates ranged from 12.7% countrywide to 32.8% among households living under the poverty line in 2015 [ 22 ]. Food insecurity was present in 81% of 794 low income households with children in Quito, Ecuador [ 23 ]; in 76% of 7187 households in the state of Nayarit, Mexico [ 24 ]; in 75% of 443 households in a Nicaraguan population sample [ 25 ]; in 67% of 6591 households with members over 59 years of age in Mexico [ 26 ]; in 49% of 3920 urban households and 45% of rural households in a Brazilian nationally representative sample [ 27 ]; and in 39% of 128 households of Los Morochucos district of Perú [ 28 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emerging themes in food security: environmental justice, extended families and the multiple roles of grandmothers

Alderete

Sonderegger

Pérez‐Stable

2018

Int J Equity Health

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BackgroundPre- and perinatal nutritional status defines the development of adult metabolism and energy balance in humans. Young children in poor households are disproportionately more vulnerable to food insecurity given the cumulative impact of chronic stress on susceptibility to chronic diseases as an adult. Qualitative studies focusing on the experience of food insecurity in Latin America are scarce. In Argentina, although socioeconomic indicators improved in the aftermath of the 2001ecomomic crisis, the disadvantaged provinces in the north continue to bear the burden of historical inequities. The study was conducted among Primary Health Care patients in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina. It analyzes environmental and household level stressors through the narratives of mothers with young children living with food insecurity, from the perspectives of eco-developmental conceptual frameworks.MethodsWe conducted 11 semi-structured interviews with mothers of children < 1 to 6 years of age who participated in maternal-child health programs in Primary Health Care clinics and lived in food insecure households. Interviews focused on the environmental context and the resources and processes for obtaining and preparing daily meals.ResultsThe Eco-bio-developmental (EBD) framework and the vulnerability-assets approach, provided a basis for conceptualizing the significance of findings. Our results indicated the need to understand pathways in the association of stressors, vulnerability and ill health, as well as the mitigating role of social relationships. For example, understanding the link between the stress of being exposed to environmental contaminants and the capacity to overcome food insecurity, or developing strategies to integrate the support provided by kinship networks like extended families into food security programs. The results also indicate the importance of developing support mechanisms for vulnerable family members like grandmothers in food insecure households who play instrumental roles as providers and caretakers of younger relatives.ConclusionThe empirical evidence generated by this study may inform community based strategies and public health policies to address food insecurity in vulnerable population groups who face health effects from multiple stressors.

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“…Another important factor affecting biological use is hand washing. Pillaca and Villanueva () did find in the district Los Morocuchos (Ayacucho, mountain area, southern Peru) that only 74.2% of mothers washed their hands before preparing food, 48.4% before eating, 41.4% before feeding their children and 37.5% after going to the toilet. The percentage of families who always washed their hands with water and soap was 7.8%, which is an important factor to consider in future preventive strategies for intestinal‐infectious diseases.…”

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confidence: 99%

How effective and efficient are social programs on food and nutritional security?

Pillaca‐Medina¹,

Chávez‐Dulanto

2017

Food and Energy Security

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The analysis of the impact assessment of social programs allows to identify whether they fulfil the established objectives and evidencing the weaknesses to be strengthened in future actions, and modify or propose new intervention strategies. In Peru, the substantial economic progress since the 90s decade promoted dramatical investments in the social sector, especially on children well-being, as around 30% of the total Peru population are children under the age of 15, being the age group most affected by poverty in the country. This review was aimed to present an overview of the current situation of social programs in Peru in terms of food (and nutritional) security (FS), emphasizing on the institutional framework and the impact of the social programs implemented by the Government, as well as some social programs implemented by nongovernmental organizations. To this end, information available on the world wide web, including peer-reviewed papers on databases (mainly SciELO and LiLACs for their relevance for the Latin American region) regarding FS in Peru from 1989 onwards, and information published by the Peruvian official organisms directly involved in FS, was used. Studies addressing at least four of the seven points of the food and nutritional security in Peru analyzed in this paper (access, availability, consumption, biological use, stability, current situation, and institutionality) were considered. It was concluded that investment and resources should be used to improve social programs strategies designed according to the reality of each focused area, as in Peru, the achievements show an enormous potential for replicability of the interventions. Children must be prioritized through child-sensitive programs, instead of considering them just as indicators and investments for the future-especially in rural areas whipped by the past internal conflicts-in order to contribute to the sustainable development of the country and assuring FS. K E Y W O R D Schronic malnutrition, food security, impact assessment, Peru (Source: DeCS BIREME), social programs

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Evaluación de seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en familias del distrito de Los Morochucos en Ayacucho, Perú

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Food and nutritional security in the villages Nuevo Tambo de Mora and Alto El Molino, Ica, Peru

Food and nutritional security in the villages Nuevo Tambo de Mora and Alto El Molino, Ica, Peru

Emerging themes in food security: environmental justice, extended families and the multiple roles of grandmothers

How effective and efficient are social programs on food and nutritional security?

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