| Autor: |
Guirindola, Mildred O., Custodio Jr., Carlo G., Villanueva, Jessica D., Guirindola, Ruel B. |
| Předmět: |
|
| Zdroj: |
Philippine Journal of Science; Feb2023, Vol. 152 Issue 1, p205-218, 14p |
| Abstrakt: |
The United Nations (UN) presented the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030 (UN 2016), and goal number two of the SDG is to end hunger and achieve food security and goal five is gender equality. The study assessed the effect of household headship on food security in the Philippines and identify significant factors and assess the gaps. The household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS) was used to evaluate household food security (n = 13,672), which was cross-examined with the households' socio-demographic and health and sanitation characteristics using descriptive and binary logistic regression analyses. From the survey, most of the households are headed by a male (84%), and only around 26% are food secure. Initially, the female-headed household had a 1.34 times higher likelihood of food security than the male-headed household, but upon considering the confounding effect and possible effect measure modification of other risk factors, male-headed households had 20% higher odds of food security. The study revealed that there was an overestimation of the magnitude of the association between food security and the gender of the household head if the confounders were not controlled. Confounding parameters that affected this result are occupation, type of cooking fuel, and type of flooring material. The gender-based gaps are mostly connected to employment; implicitly embedded are culture and income. This study adds to the body of knowledge on how the gender of the household head affects household food security as an empirical basis to refine government household food security interventions and maximize their impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
