Child Malnutrition
Child Malnutrition in India
... and Malnutrition (HUNGaMA), 1 the then Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh declared that “the problem of malnutrition is a matter of national ...of malnutrition in the country is unacceptably high” ...
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Regional inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis
... malnutrition, as it reflects the household ability to purchase nutrition rich food, living in a healthy envir- onment, and to access health care services. The eco- nomic status is measured by wealth index, which ...
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Mother‘s Empowerment and Child Malnutrition: Evidence from Pakistan
... An important determinant of child malnutrition is household status in terms of income, consumption or poverty 12 . In almost all studies which are based on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), a wealth ...
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Child Malnutrition and Mortality in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Cross Country Analysis
... The statistical information available in the WB WDI database allows to extract or to estimate 43 two values for many (not all) of our variables, one for 1990 and one for 2004, for a limited number of developing ...
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
... 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate ...for child- care workers from …xed wages to performance ...weight-for-age malnutrition by ...
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Inequities in under-five child malnutrition in South Africa
... in child malnutrition (stunting and underweight) that are unnecessary, avoidable and ...unjust. Malnutrition affects child survival negatively ...in child nutritional status are likely ...
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Application of ordinal logistic regression analysis in determining risk factors of child malnutrition in Bangladesh
... of malnutrition and severe malnutrition, two sepa- rate binary logistic regression (BLR) models are required to develop by grouping the response variable into two categories ...of child ...
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On exploring and ranking risk factors of child malnutrition in Bangladesh using multiple classification analysis
... level child malnutrition in Bangladesh, disag- gregate level malnutrition is still very ...level malnutrition, the significant predictors are usually identified by utilizing the logistic ...
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Maternal Literacy and Child Malnutrition in India
... of child malnutrition in India based on unit record data - where, as noted above, the incidence of child malnutrition, both in terms of severity and in terms of numbers involved, is ...
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Algorithms for converting estimates of child malnutrition based on the NCHS reference into estimates based on the WHO Child Growth Standards
... This paper provides algorithms that convert estimates of child malnutrition based on the NCHS reference into esti- mates based on the WHO Child Growth Standards. The algorithms were developed using ...
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Impact of child malnutrition on the specific anti Plasmodium falciparum antibody response
... of child malnutrition at the onset of the rainy season upon subse- quent susceptibility to malaria was investigated during that survey ...of child nutritional status on ...
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Socioeconomic-related inequalities in child malnutrition: evidence from the Ghana multiple indicator cluster survey
... in child malnutrition in Ghana, though our finding on stunting represents slight reduction from van de Poel’s finding ...target child malnutrition while closing ...
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An ecological analysis of child malnutrition in an Abelam community, Papua New Guinea
... and Child H ealth (M C H ) clinic1 which v isited th e village m onthly b u t after a tte m p tin g this in O cto b er and N ovem ber 1983 this aim was aban don ...occasional child m issed d u rin g the o ...
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Fighting poverty and child malnutrition: on the design of foreign aid policies
... Also,there are national organizations which o ff er food in clinics and in other health structures to combat malnutrition for the poor and unhealthy people. Kraak et al (1999) show this kind of food aid directly ...
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Household food access and child malnutrition: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study
... through child anthropometry [10] or agricultural productivity ...and child nutritional status, as measured by anthropometry, in eight country sites to determine whether these variables were related, and ...
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Nutritional Practices among Ethnic Minorities and Child Malnutrition in Mountainous Areas of Central Vietnam
... reducing malnutrition among chil- dren under 5 years old in Vietnam in recent years, the rate of malnutrition in Vietnam remains higher than that rate in other surrounding ...to child health care and ...
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Exploring health stakeholders' perceptions on moving towards comprehensive primary health care to address childhood malnutrition in Iran: a qualitative study
... of child malnutrition recently shifted from being a biological deficiency of micro and macro nutri- ents to a broader sense which includes social, environ- mental and economic determinants ...of ...
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Correlates of stunting among under-five children in Bangladesh: a multilevel approach
... In conclusion, this study clearly reveals that multilevel modeling should be used for hierarchical data to predict significant determinant child malnutrition in correct level. This study also has been ...
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The impact of childhood malnutrition on schooling: evidence from Bangladesh
... between child health and schooling in several ...of child health on schooling outcome in Bangladesh, apart from Grira ...of child health in Grira’s study may not completely control for the unobserved ...
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Maternal depression and child severe acute malnutrition: a case-control study from Kenya
... acute malnutrition in Kenyan children aged 6 – 60 ...acute malnutrition as determined by WHO ...questionnaire. Child anthropometric and maternal demographic data were ...with child ...
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