Indicators of food and water security in an Arctic Health context – results from an international workshop discussion

Figures & data

Table I Candidate indicators of food security in an Arctic health context sorted according to security aspect reflected by the measure and the general workshop discernment

			Number of indicators discerned by workshop to …
Security aspect	Candidate Indicators	Number of alternative measures considered	promote	develop	reject	Promoted measure
Food availability	Healthy weight	3	2	0	1	BMI (kg/m^2) Percentage obese (BMI >30 in adults, or>+ 2 SD in children)
	Traditional food proportion in diet	3	2	0	1	Self-estimated % traditional food in diet Proportion eating TF the previous day or week
	Per-person dietary energy supply	1	0	New	1	–
Food accessibility	Monetary food costs	3	1	0	2	Cost for nutritious food basket, percentage of disposable household income
	Non-monetary food accessibility	5	1	4	0	Percentage of families/households with hunter/fisher/ collector/herder
	Food security survey modules	2	0	1	1	–
Food safety	Food-borne diseases	3	3	0	0	Incidence rate in humans, Seroprevalence in human, Seroprevalence in subsistence species
	Food-related contaminants	3	3	0	0	Chemical contaminants in food, Microbiological contaminants in food, Chemical contaminants in human tissue
	Self-estimated food safety	1	0	0	1	–
	Healthy eating	3	0	1	2	–
SUM		27	11	6+new	10	N=11 measures

Table II. Candidate indicators of water security in an Arctic health context sorted according to security aspect reflected by the measure and the general workshop discernment

			Number of indicators discerned by workshop to…
Security aspect	Candidate Indicators	Number of alternative measures considered	promote	develop	reject	Promoted measure
Water availability	Per-capita renewable water	1	1	0	0	(m^3/capita and year)
	Water consumption	1	0	0	1	–
	Types of water sources	4	0	new	4	–
Water accessibility	Accessibility of running water	5	1	0	4	Percentage of households having running water available in their homes
	Periodic water shortages	2	0	2	0	–
	Household water costs	1	0	0	1	–
Water safety	Waterborne diseases	1	1	0	0	Incidence rate in human
	Drinking-water-related contaminants	3	3	0	0	Exceedings of national threshold levels, Occasions when consumers have been recommended to boil their drinking water, Microbiological quality of water
	Authorized water quality assurance	1	1	0	0	Proportion of consumers having access of authorized quality assured water
	Water safety plans	1	1	0	0	Presence of a compulsory water safety plan according to WHO
SUM		20	8	2 +new	10