title: [Characterization of Mexican households with food insecurity].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the sociodemographic and health characteristics associated with food insecurity (FI) in Mexican households.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included information about 40 809 households from the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012. The Latin American and Caribbean Scale Food Safety (ELCSA) was used to categorize households in terms of food insecurity. Classification and regression trees were used to identify the most significant characteristics in households with high prevalence of FI.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The characteristics associated with higher prevalence of FI in homes were: lowest quintiles of welfare status, lack of education or walking or moving disability of household head, and not receiving money from social programmes, pension or remittances.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Monitoring of the factors that favor the presence of FI is required to detect social groups being excluded from the right to food.
authors: Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors: Verónica
authors: V
authors: Mundo-Rosas
authors: Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A.C., Aguascalientes, México.
authors: Ignacio
authors: I
authors: Méndez-Gómez Humarán
authors: Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors: Teresa
authors: T
authors: Shamah-Levy
mesh_terms: D004522:Educational Status; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005378:Financial Support; D005523:Food Supply / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008800:Mexico; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires