Evalution of the Trend of Inequality in Food Costs of Kerman Province and Comparison with National Indices (1989-2005)

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Background And Objectives
Due to importance of income as a social determinant of health and the role of food inequality in Peoples’ health, this study tended to investigate the changes of inequality in nutritional status during 1989-2005 in urban and rural areas of Kerman province; furthermore comparing of this trend with corresponding values in National level was examined.
Materials And Methods
In this Descriptive - Analytical study we used the statistical data on household budgets for measuring food costs inequality indices (Gini and Theil). The study was conducted for both urban and rural areas of Kerman province by considering National measures STATA and SPSS Software. Were used to analyzing the data.
Results
In general the trend of inequality measures in both urban and rural areas has been declining, but with high fluctuation. Using independent t test we found that the amount of food costs inequality between urban and rural areas are the same; there was no statistically significant differences in distribustion of food costs between urban areas of Kerman province and the urban areas of the country, comparing the rural areas of Kerman province with the rural areas of country in terms of inequality showed that the only significant difference found was in Theil index (p=0.04).
Conclusion
In this study we concluded that the trend of food costs inequality in some years has proved high value and fluctuation in both urban and rural areas of Kerman province should be considered as one of the main concerns by policy maker in order to improve nutritional security and reduce disparity in food costs between the rich and poor segments. At the end considering research findings, some recommendations have been offered.
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Persian
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Journal of Rafsanjan University Of Medical Sciences, Volume:12 Issue: 2, 2013
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115
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