Meysam Behzadifar1, Masoud Behzadifar2, Shadi Abdi3, Reza Malekzadeh4, Masoumeh Arab Salmani5, Gholamreza Ghoreishinia6, Ebrahim Falahi6, Masoud Mirzaei7, Nabi Shams Biranvand3, Kourosh Sayehmiri8. 1. Student Research Commitee, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran. 2. Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 3. Department of Health, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Research Committee, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran. 4. Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 5. Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. 6. Department of Operating Room, Faculty of Paramedical, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. 7. Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Yazd University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. 8. Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Food security is one of the main factors of individual and social health. It is of such importance that the World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced it as one of the Millennium Development Goals. This study aimed to report the prevalence of food insecurity in Iran. METHODS: We searched English databases including; Scopus, Ovid, Web of Science, PubMed and Google Scholar and also Iranian databases; SID, Magiran and IranMedex for words Iran, food insecurity, and prevalence up to August 2015. The pooled food insecurity prevalence was calculated using Der-Simonian test. All analyses were performed using random effects model with 95% CI. We assessed heterogeneity of the studies using sub-group and meta-regression analyses. RESULTS: A total of 31 studies were included. The prevalence of food insecurity was 49% among households (95% CI: %40-%59), 67% in children (95% CI: %63-%70), 61% in mothers (95% CI: %35-%88), 49% in adolescents (95% CI: %33-%66) and 65% in the elderly (95% CI: %44-%86). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of food insecurity is high in Iran. Fiscal policies should promote the nutritional knowledge of household members and also support the households to meet their nutritional needs. This plan should give priority to mid and low socioeconomic groups.
BACKGROUND: Food security is one of the main factors of individual and social health. It is of such importance that the World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced it as one of the Millennium Development Goals. This study aimed to report the prevalence of food insecurity in Iran. METHODS: We searched English databases including; Scopus, Ovid, Web of Science, PubMed and Google Scholar and also Iranian databases; SID, Magiran and IranMedex for words Iran, food insecurity, and prevalence up to August 2015. The pooled food insecurity prevalence was calculated using Der-Simonian test. All analyses were performed using random effects model with 95% CI. We assessed heterogeneity of the studies using sub-group and meta-regression analyses. RESULTS: A total of 31 studies were included. The prevalence of food insecurity was 49% among households (95% CI: %40-%59), 67% in children (95% CI: %63-%70), 61% in mothers (95% CI: %35-%88), 49% in adolescents (95% CI: %33-%66) and 65% in the elderly (95% CI: %44-%86). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of food insecurity is high in Iran. Fiscal policies should promote the nutritional knowledge of household members and also support the households to meet their nutritional needs. This plan should give priority to mid and low socioeconomic groups.
Authors: Masoud Yazdanpanah; Maryam Tajeri Moghadam; Moslem Savari; Tahereh Zobeidi; Stefan Sieber; Katharina Löhr Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2021-05-17 Impact factor: 3.390