Household food insecurity among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and its associated factors in South India: a cross-sectional analysis
ObjectivesFood insecurity is ‘the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate, safe foods or inability to acquire foods in socially acceptable ways’. Majority of tuberculosis (TB) cases of resource-poor settings experience food insecurity, which impacts treatment adherence and outcom...
Main Authors: | Palanivel Chinnakali, Kathiresan Jeyashree, Mathavaswami Vijayageetha, Reshma Ayiraveetil, Sonali Sarkar, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Selby Knudsen, Natasha S Hochberg, C Robert Horsburgh, Jerrold Ellner, Gautam Roy |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2020-02-01
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Series: | BMJ Open |
Online Access: | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/2/e033798.full |
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