Insegurança alimentar e nutricional de crianças de comunidade do Médio Solimões, Amazonas

Abstract

Currently, childhood obesity in Brazil has become a public health problem, while food insecurity remains an important risk factor in some socioeconomic groups, in addition to being still poorly studied in more distant areas of the Amazon, such as cities countryside. The present project analyzed the situation of food insecurity and the nutritional status of children under 5 years old who lived in a riverside community, located in the Middle Solimões, near the municipality of Coari-Amazonas. It was a cross-sectional research, of a quantitative nature, with application of the Brazilian Scale of Food Insecurity, Scale of the Brazilian Association of Research Companies and comparison of the situation of food insecurity and nutritional status with the economic variables, of paternal and maternal education, housing, child and lactation. It was found in the community 90% of families in a situation of food insecurity, classified in the economic class D-E, children with nutritional deficits, mainly weight-for-height and association between food insecurity and breastfeeding time, income and paternal education.