Household food security data consensus statement

Australian Household Food Security Data Coalition (AHFSDC); Miriam Williams; Katherine Kent; Simone Sheriff; Sue Kleve; Stephanie Godrich; Sandra Murray; Seema Mihrshahi; Elizabeth  Millen; Fiona McKay; Rebecca  Lindberg; Karen Charlton; Danielle Gallegos; Miri (Margaret) Raven; Jacqueline Davison; Carol Richards; Francis Markham; Berbel Franse

Household food security data consensus statement

Australian Household Food Security Data Coalition (AHFSDC), Miriam Williams, Katherine Kent, Simone Sheriff, Sue Kleve, Stephanie Godrich, Sandra Murray, Seema Mihrshahi, Elizabeth Millen, Fiona McKay, Rebecca Lindberg, Karen Charlton, Danielle Gallegos, Miri (Margaret) Raven, Jacqueline Davison, Carol Richards, Francis Markham, Berbel Franse

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Abstract

•Food insecurity in Australia is increasing, but a lack of consistent, regular monitoring and reporting of food insecurity using comprehensive, validated tools is limiting timely intervention.

•Regular monitoring is urgently needed from state/ territory and federal governments. Reporting of the prevalence of household food security needs to reflect levels of severity (marginal, moderate and severe food insecurity) in each state and territory across Australia.

•Commonly used short tools comprising one or two questions are inadequate for assessing the true prevalence of food insecurity and result in serious underestimation.

•The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 18-item Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM) should be adopted across settings to provide the most valid, internationally comparable data on food insecurity for both adults and children.

Original language	English
Publisher	University of Wollongong
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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Name	Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B
Publisher	University of Wollongong

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Australian Household Food Security Data Coalition (AHFSDC), Williams, M., Kent, K., Sheriff, S., Kleve, S., Godrich, S., Murray, S., Mihrshahi, S., Millen, E., McKay, F., Lindberg, R., Charlton, K., Gallegos, D., Raven, M., Davison, J., Richards, C., Markham, F., & Franse, B. (2022). Household food security data consensus statement. (Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B). University of Wollongong. https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers1/1826/

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