title: Household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS).
abstract: In 1996, the World Food Summit reaffirmed the inalienable right that each person across the globe has to access safe, adequate and nutritious food. At that time a goal was established to reduce by half the number of undernourished persons worldwide by 2015, in other words the year that we are now commencing. Different countries and organisations considered the necessity of reaching consensus and developing indicators for measuring household food insecurity. The availability of a simple but evidence-based measurement method to identify nutritionally at-risk population groups constitutes an essential instrument for implementing strategies that effectively address relevant key issues.
authors.affiliation: Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya. Departament de Salut. Generalitat de Catalunya. Barcelona (Spain).. gemma.salvador@gencat.cat.
authors.forename: Gemma
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salvador Castell
authors.affiliation: Fundación FIDEC. Bilbao. Presidenta de la Sociedad Española de Nutrición Comunitaria, SENC..
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pérez Rodrigo
authors.affiliation: Fundación para la Investigación Nutricional, Parc Científic de Barcelona..
authors.forename: Joy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ngo de la Cruz
authors.affiliation: Fundación para la Investigación Nutricional, Parc Científic de Barcelona. Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública. Universidad de Navarra. CiberOBN, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid..
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aranceta Bartrina
mesh_terms: D005191:Family Characteristics; D005523:Food Supply; D006801:Humans; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires