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Dietary diversity has been used to ascertain food security status albeit at the multicountry and country levels. Thus, household-level studies in urban settings, particularly in sub-Sahara African, are few. Yet, it is imperative that assessments of food security are undertaken particularly in urban settings, due to the projected fast rate of urbanization and the challenges of attaining food security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>OBJECTIVE<\/strong><br \/>\nTo examine household characteristics and dietary diversity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>METHODS<\/strong><br \/>\nThe study uses data from 452 households from the second round of the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) EDULINK urban poverty and health study. Bivariate and multivariate analyses are undertaken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><br \/>\nMean dietary diversity for all households is 6.8. Vegetables have the highest diversity, followed by cereal-based and grain products. Household characteristics that have statistically significant associations with dietary diversity include sex and level of education of household head, household wealth quintile, and source of food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>CONCLUSIONS<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is high dietary diversity in the study communities of Accra but low consumption of foods rich in micronutrient, such as fruits and milk\/dairy products. The study brings to fore issues related to resource-disadvantaged entities of the urban system, namely, females, poor households, and the non-educated who have food insecurity problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","mots_cles":[],"class_list":["post-21686","resume","type-resume","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"adresse":"Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana scodjoe@ug.edu.gh.","annee":"2016","mois":"2","numero":"","page":"","auteurs":[{"ID":21683,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 20:53:06","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:53:06","post_content":"","post_title":"Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"samuel-nii-ardey-codjoe","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 20:53:06","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:53:06","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/samuel-nii-ardey-codjoe\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":21684,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 20:53:07","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:53:07","post_content":"","post_title":"David Okutu","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"david-okutu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 20:53:07","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:53:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/david-okutu\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":21685,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 20:53:07","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:53:07","post_content":"","post_title":"Mumuni Abu","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mumuni-abu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 20:53:07","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:53:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/mumuni-abu\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"sources":[{"ID":1834,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 16:49:49","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 15:49:49","post_content":"","post_title":"FOOD AND NUTRITION BULLETIN","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"food-and-nutrition-bulletin","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 16:49:49","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 15:49:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/source\/food-and-nutrition-bulletin\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"source","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.6 (Yoast SEO v23.6) - 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