Insegurança alimentar em adultos Yoreme-Mayo no noroeste do México

Abstract

Food Insecurity constitutes a significant challenge for public health, since it is experienced mainly in individuals belonging to vulnerable and historically backward groups, such as the case of Mexican indigenous groups. The structuralist theory of Lévi-Strauss in 1969, proposes a perspective approach to nutrition and its complexity as a process socially affected by macro and micro influences that impact the nutrition of family groups. The article objective was to describe food insecurity in indigenous Yoreme-Mayo adults of northwest Mexico. The study was descriptive and transversal study. The sample is 212 adults aged 18 years and older who live in a Yoreme-Mayo indigenous community. Sampling was by snowball. The Mexican Food Safety Scale, anthropometric measurements of weight, height and waist circumference and a sociodemographic data sheet were used. An average age of 38.78 (18 - 78) was found, men predominated (f = 115; 54.2%). The activities with salary were the domain occupation (f = 151; 71.2%) and 82.1% (f = 174) received less than 6,000 pesos M.N. monthly. Likewise, the general prevalence of food insecurity was 89.2% (f =189) where the most affected groups were women (f = 87, 51.8%), people aged 18 to 29 (f = 67, 31.6%) and individuals with high BMI (f = 120, 56.6%). Conclusion: Food insecurity occurs in the Yoreme-Mayo ethnic group without distinction of social and demographic characteristics. Correlation studies are recommended to identify factors that are related to the phenomenon studied.