Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a co-author of a newly published article, "Maternal Mental Health Mediates the Relationship Between Household Food Insecurity and Early Child Development in Brazil" in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin journal. Household food insecurity (HFI) is a well-known risk factor for suboptimal early child development (ECD), but there is still a need to better understand the pathways that explain this relationship. This study aimed to evaluate whether maternal mental health and infant’s diet mediate the association between HFI and ECD using structural equation modeling.
