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Household food insecurity, diet, and weight status in a disadvantaged district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a cross-sectional study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2015
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Title
Household food insecurity, diet, and weight status in a disadvantaged district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a cross-sectional study
Published in
BMC Public Health, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1566-z
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Authors

Thuy Ngoc Vuong, Danielle Gallegos, Rebecca Ramsey

Abstract

Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, economic and socially acceptable access to safe, sufficient, and adequately nutritious food in order to meet their dietary needs for an active and healthy life. For high income countries and those experiencing the nutrition transition, food security is not only about the quantity of available food but also the nutritional quality as related to over- and under-nutrition. Vietnam is currently undergoing this nutrition transition, and as a result the relationship between food insecurity, socio-demographic factors and weight status is complex. The primary objective of this study was to therefore measure the prevalence of household food insecurity in a disadvantaged urban district in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in Vietnam using a more comprehensive tool. This study also aims to examine the relationships between food insecurity and socio-demographic factors, weight status, and food intakes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 160 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 28 17%
Student > Master 26 16%
Researcher 20 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 12%
Student > Postgraduate 8 5%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 38 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 25 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 14%
Social Sciences 18 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Other 25 16%
Unknown 49 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 October 2023.
All research outputs
#2,689,287
of 24,585,562 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#3,140
of 16,251 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,584
of 263,610 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#61
of 295 outputs
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