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The Impact of Food Consumption Pattern on Women’s Health at Sana’a Governorate, Yemen

Muhammed AK Al Mansoob1* and Muhammed SA Masood2

1Faculty of Science, Sana’a University, Yemen

2Faculty of Education and Language, Amran University, Yemen

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Received Date: April 10, 2019;  Published Date: August 13, 2019

Abstract

This research was aimed at studying the impact of food consumption pattern (FCP) via the Household Dietary Diversity Scores and Women Dietary Diversity Scores and also Households incomeon the malnutrition status of women (MUAC) in the two zones, Sana’a Dry (SD) that represents the rural part and Sana’a Temperate (ST) that represents the urban part of Sana’a Governorate, Yemen. The investigation based on data that extracted from a comprehensive survey conducted by UNICEF during 2016 with a total sample of 1396 women in the reproductive age 15-49 years from the two zones SD and ST. The prevalence of middle upper arm circumference (MUAC) in SD’s women is about 2.4 more than the ST’s women. The relationship between income quintiles and MUAC in the two zones is highly significance (P-Value <0.001). Based on the income data of HHs, and the exchange rate of 2016, it was found that 85.5% of HHs are living on less than 1US$ per capita/day. While MUAC rates are the highest among women consuming cereals, miscellaneous, oils, sugar honey and diary in the SD zone, they are sugar honey, diary, oils and legumes in the ST zone. Only when meat, fruits, eggs and seafood came into the FCP of women, MUAC rates have been reduced significantly in both zones. New thresholds for both HDDS and WDDS that based on the mean number of food groups consumed (FGC) were suggested and lead to more realistic results.

Keywords:FCP; FGC; HDDS; WDDS; Income quintiles; Sanaa Governorate

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