this would be appropriate to the first row of purposes in the table above to accomplish the second row of purposes would require associating scores on the household food insecurity assessment with the onset of negative developmental consequences for children existing research in the united states indicates that on average there are negative developmental consequences for children living in households that affirm even one indicator of household food insecurity additional research comparing different thresholds to a definitive measure of child food insecurity eg interviews with children or to proxy measures such as outcome data on child development would be needed to determine what threshold is appropriate globally