How to complement traditional instruments to measure the economic dimension of food security in older people? An application for regions of Argentina.

One of the dimensions of food security has to do with economic access to food. Propose a methodology that allows evaluating economic access to food in Argentina for the elderly population. Dietary guides for the Argentine population are used.

The health, environmental, and economic dimensions of future dietary transitions in Argentina.

Unlabelled: Diets link human health with environmental sustainability, offering promising pressure points to enhance the sustainability of food systems. We investigated the health, environmental, and economic dimensions of the current diet in Argentina and the possible effects of six dietary change scenarios on nutrient adequacy, dietary quality, food expenditure, and six environmental impact categories (i.e.

[Engel's coefficient and dietary quality in Argentine households inhabited by older adults (2004-2018)].

Background And Objectives: To determine if there were alterations in the proportion of spending that Argentine households of older adults spend on the purchase of food (Engel's coefficient) and other goods and services, as well as to evaluate the dietary quality of the members of these households.

Materials And Methods: From the last three waves of the National Household Expenditure Survey (2004-2005, 2012-2013 and 2017-2018) those households in the province of Buenos Aires inhabited by older adults are filtered and carried out. Median difference tests for the proportion of spending these households spend on food and other goods and services.

Quality and environmental footprints of diets by socio-economic status in Argentina.

Food consumption and production plays a major role on human health and environmental sustainability. In addition, socio-economic status (SES) could be an important determinant on these impacts. Here we investigated the quality and environmental footprints of diets of different SES in Argentina.

Incubation period and serial interval of Covid-19 in a chain of infections in Bahia Blanca (Argentina).

The objective of this work was to estimate the incubation period and the serial interval of Covid-19 from a sample of symptomatic patients in Bahia Blanca city during the period March-May 2020. We collected dates of illness onset for primary cases and secondary cases for the first 18 secondary patients infected with SARS-Cov-2. Estimations of incubation period are based on a log-normal distribution while we assume a Gamma distribution for the serial interval.

[Total health expenditure efficiency: non-parametric analysis in a large sample of countries].

Objective: To measure the efficiency of 190 countries in producing health results and the factors that determine such efficiency.

Methodology: A data envelopment analysis was conducted on worldwide data from the year 2009 in order to estimate the efficient frontier, based on total health expenditure per capita, as well on infant mortality rate and life expectancy at birth. At the same time, an analysis of the determinants of expenditure efficiency was performed through Tobit models.