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ReviewBMJ global health2023

Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience.

Justin Stoler, Wendy E Jepson, Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich

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Review in BMJ global health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Dual Burden of Food and Water Insecurity Among SNAP Households with Children in the Southern United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  3. Characterizing Water Insecurity Among US College Students: Prevalence, Scope and Linkages With Food Insecurity.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025
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  5. Interacting Water Insecurity and Food Insecurity: Recent Advances in Theory and Application.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Justin StolerDepartment of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA stoler@miami.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8435-7012
Wendy E JepsonDepartment of Geography, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7693-1376
Alexandra BrewisSchool of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3769-4205
Amber WutichSchool of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4164-1632
Arizona State University · USTexas Health Resources Foundation · USUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The measurement of household-level and individual-level water insecurity has accelerated over the past 5 years through innovation and dissemination of new survey-based experiential psychometric scales modelled after food insecurity scales. These measures offer needed insight into the relative frequency of various dimensions of water problems experienced by households or individuals. But they currently tell us nothing about the severity of these experiences, mitigating behaviours (ie, adaptation) or the effectiveness of water-related behaviours (ie, resilience). Given the magnitude of the global challenge to provide water security for all, we propose a low-cost, theoretically grounded modification to common water insecurity metrics in order to capture information about severity, adaptation and resilience. We also discuss ongoing challenges in cost-effective measurement related to multidimensionality, water affordability and perception of water quality for maximising the impact and sustainability of water supply interventions. The next generation of water insecurity metrics promises better monitoring and evaluation tools-particularly in the context of rapid global environmental change-once scale reliability across diverse contexts is better characterised.

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PsychometricsWater InsecurityHumansReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and QuestionnairesWater Supplyepidemiologyindices of health and disease and standardisation of ratesother diagnostic or toolscreening

Identifiers

PMID37137537
PMCPMC10163551
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