We pool all DHS surveys for African countries, control for other correlates of undernutrition, and add country-level GDP per capita. We find that a 10 percent increase in GDP per capita is associated with 1.5 to 1.7 percent lower odds of being stunted, 2.8 to 3.0 percent lower odds of ...
Child growth failure (CGF) is the specific subset of child undernutrition, excluding micro- nutrient deficiencies, that is characterized by the relationship between insufficient height and weight at a given age, and this subset is most uni- versally described in terms of univariate 'growth ...
Long-term consequences of stunting in early life. Maternal & child nutrition. 2011; 7 Suppl 3:5–18. Epub 2011/10/05. 3. Victora CG, Adair L, Fall C, Hallal PC, Martorell R, Richter L. Maternal and child undernutrition: conse- quences for adult health and huma...
The COVID-19 crisis will exacerbate maternal and child undernutrition and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries Article 19 July 2021 Trends and patterns of the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) in Peru: a pooled analysis of 129,159 mother–child dyads Article Open access ...
We therefore assessed the mediating role of low birth weight (LBW) in the relationship of maternal undernutrition with child undernutrition in West Africa. Methods: We included recent (2010–2019) DHS data from thirteen West African countries. Poisson regression model with robust standard errors was...
Nine of them had increase of more than 0.1% in the overall probability of death owing to self-harm and interpersonal violence between birth and age 20 years: Syria (1990, 0.04%; 2017, 3.45%), Iraq (1990, 0.26%; 2017, 1.22%), Yemen (1990, 0.07%; 2017, 0.89%), Central African ...
We report on a national South African multistage cluster sampling survey of early development in 5,222 children aged 50-59 months enrolled in preschool pro
Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences. Lancet. 2008;371(9608):243–60. Article PubMed Google Scholar de Groot R, Palermo T, Handa S, Ragno LP, Peterman A. Cash transfers and child nutrition: pathways and impacts. Dev Policy Rev. 2017;35(...
We find that warmer, more El Niño-like ENSO conditions increase short-term undernutrition in children across the tropics, with the opposite occurring in places where precipitation tends to increase during El Niño. These effects are robust to a wide variety of alternative specifications and ...
Insufficient growth during childhood is associated with poor health outcomes and an increased risk of death. Between 2000 and 2015, nearly all African countries demonstrated improvements for children under 5 years old for stunting, wasting, and underweight, the core components of child growth failure....