PMID- 29656716
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191002
LR  - 20191007
IS  - 1475-2727 (Electronic)
IS  - 1368-9800 (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 12
DP  - 2018 Aug
TI  - Assessing food security using household consumption expenditure surveys (HCES): a 
      scoping literature review.
PG  - 2200-2210
LID - 10.1017/S136898001800068X [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To meet some of the UN's seventeen Sustainable Development Goals by 
      2030, there is a need for more effective policy to reduce food insecurity in 
      low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMIC). Measuring progress towards 
      these goals requires reliable indicators of food security in these countries. 
      Routinely conducted household consumption and expenditure surveys (HCES) provide 
      potentially valuable and nationally representative data sets for this purpose. 
      The present study aimed to assess methods used to determine national food 
      security status using proxy measures from HCES data in LMIC globally. DESIGN: A 
      scoping literature review was conducted using electronic databases. Of the 929 
      abstracts identified, a total of twenty articles were reviewed against strict 
      inclusion and exclusion criteria and included for further analysis. RESULTS: 
      Fourteen LMIC globally were represented in the twenty articles. The simplest 
      metric used to indicate food insecurity compared household food expenditure 
      against a level of expenditure considered to be below the poverty line. Data on 
      acquisition of food was commonly converted to available energy for the household 
      using local food composition tables and expressed as a proportion of household 
      total energy requirements. Dietary diversity was also assessed in some studies as 
      well as experience of food insecurity. CONCLUSIONS: The review demonstrated that 
      routinely collected HCES data sets provide a useful resource for the measurement 
      of household food security in often resource-limited LMIC. Standardisation of 
      methods used to assess food security is needed to allow for more useful 
      comparisons between countries, as well as to assess temporal trends.
FAU - Russell, Joanna
AU  - Russell J
AD  - 1School of Health and Society,University of Wollongong,Northfields 
      Avenue,Wollongong,NSW 2522,Australia.
FAU - Lechner, Anne
AU  - Lechner A
AD  - 2Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS),University 
      of Wollongong,Wollongong,Australia.
FAU - Hanich, Quentin
AU  - Hanich Q
AD  - 2Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS),University 
      of Wollongong,Wollongong,Australia.
FAU - Delisle, Aurelie
AU  - Delisle A
AD  - 2Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS),University 
      of Wollongong,Wollongong,Australia.
FAU - Campbell, Brooke
AU  - Campbell B
AD  - 2Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS),University 
      of Wollongong,Wollongong,Australia.
FAU - Charlton, Karen
AU  - Charlton K
AD  - 3School of Medicine,University of Wollongong,Wollongong,Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20180416
PL  - England
TA  - Public Health Nutr
JT  - Public health nutrition
JID - 9808463
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Diet Surveys
MH  - Energy Metabolism/*physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - *Food Supply/economics/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Poverty
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Food poverty
OT  - Food security
OT  - Household consumption and expenditure surveys
OT  - Low- and middle-income countries
OT  - Sustainable Development Goals
EDAT- 2018/04/17 06:00
MHDA- 2019/10/08 06:00
CRDT- 2018/04/17 06:00
PHST- 2018/04/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/10/08 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/04/17 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S136898001800068X [pii]
AID - 10.1017/S136898001800068X [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Public Health Nutr. 2018 Aug;21(12):2200-2210. doi: 10.1017/S136898001800068X. 
      Epub 2018 Apr 16.