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Food Insufficiency and Food Insecurity as Risk Factors for Physical Disability among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Evidence from an Observational Study
Country: Lebanon
Classification: Movement
Year of Publication: 2016
Study Type:
Quantitative Study
Sample Size:
272
The Research party:
1. Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
2. Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Main Idea or Research Questions:
This paper investigates the association of food insufficiency with the risk of physical disability. Data on disability by cause allow us to address the difficulty of reverse causality.