Download or read book Priority Health Equity Indicators for British Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition, food insecurity prevalence is one of the 52 health equity indicators included in the suite of indicators developed by PHSA (see the Development of priority health equity indicators for British Columbia report). [...] Prevalence of household food insecurity is defined as the total number of households About 3% of households in BC experienced severe that are food insecure among the total food insecurity during this time period. [...] Prevalence of household food insecurity for all households and households in which the main source of income is social assistance in British Columbia, across health authorities, 2011-12 Within each health authority, households that relied on social assistance as the main source of income had four-to-seven-fold higher rates of food insecurity compared to all households combined. [...] Food insecurity and health indicators This section presents selected health outcome indicators of individuals living in food secure households in comparison to those living in households experiencing some level of food insecurity. [...] The researchers used sample weighting, using household weights supplied by Statistics Canada, for estimating household level prevalence of food insecurity.53 In addition to prevalence, the number of people in the province and the number of children in the province living in food insecure households is also reported.