Anthropometric status of Kazakh children in the 1990s

Dangour, Alan D.; Farmer, Anna; Hill, HL; Ismail, S.J

doi:10.1016/s1570-677x(02)00004-7

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“…In fact, none of the available growth reference charts for the US suggests a height advantage for boys of this age (see http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/), although a recent German survey did (Stolzenberg et al ., 2007). The same phenomenon has been observed in other post‐socialist societies (Dangour et al ., 2003). Komlos and Kriwy (2003) note that male heights in Brandenburg improved more during and after re‐unification, as was the case in other areas of Eastern Germany (see also Kromeyer et al ., 1997; Schilitz, 2001).…”

Section: The Development Of Unemployment and Heightsupporting

confidence: 86%

“…For example, girls' heights in the Czech Republic have been stagnating during the difficult years after transition (Bláha et al ., 2001). Children's stature in Kazakhstan – one of the former Soviet republics in Central Asia – has been stagnating or declining, with the height of girls developing even worse than boys' height due to religiously induced discrimination in the labour market (Dangour et al ., 2003). 2 Hence, the relationship between height and economic development is astonishingly pronounced for the late twentieth century, especially if intergenerational‐level effects and the influence of distinct nutritional traditions are taken into account.…”

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Children’s Height and Parental Unemployment: A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994–2006

Baten

Böhm

2010

German Economic Review

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The average height of children is an indicator of the quality of nutrition and healthcare. In this study, we assess the effect of unemployment and other factors on this variable. In the Eastern German Land of Brandenburg, a dataset of 253,050 preschool height measurements was compiled and complemented with information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with an impact on parental care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing unemployment, net out-migration and fertility were in fact reducing height.JEL classification: E24, H53, I12, I32.

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Section: The Development Of Unemployment and Heightsupporting

confidence: 86%

Section: Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Children’s Height and Parental Unemployment: A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994–2006

Baten

Böhm

2010

German Economic Review

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“…However, before 1980, urban areas were at greater risk of overweight than rural areas (Dietz and Gortmaker, 1984;Malina, 1993) and the same phenomenon is currently observed for some developing countries (Jackson et al, 2003;Pena Reyes et al, 2003). An anthropometric study of Kazakh children aged 4.0-4.9 years is available but it was performed in the 90s and gives no data about overweight (Dangour et al, 2003). In a group of Kazakh women aged 15-49 years, the prevalence of obesity (BMI !…”

Section: Overweightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prevalence of overweight and cardiovascular risk factors in rural and urban children from Central Asia: The Kazakhstan health and nutrition examination survey

Facchini

Fiori²,

Bedogni

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American J Hum Biol

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Kazakhstan is undergoing a rapid modernization process, which carries the risk of an epidemic of obesity and cardiovascular disease. We enrolled a sample of about 50 children for every combination of gender, environment (urban vs. rural), ethnic group (Kazakh vs. Russian), and age group from 7 to 18 years, for a total of 4,808 children. Anthropometry and blood pressure were measured on all children while fasting blood cholesterol and glucose were measured only in 2,616 children aged > or =12 years. The prevalence of overweight and risk of overweight ranged from 2.8 (rural male Kazakhs) to 9.1% (urban male Russians). The prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension ranged from 8.3 (urban females) to 15.9% (rural females); that of hypercholesterolemia from 11.5 (male rural Russians) to 26.5% (female rural Kazakhs); and the overall prevalence of impaired fasting glucose was 0.1%. We conclude that overweight and cardiovascular risk factors are less prevalent in children living in Kazakhstan than in those living in Western countries. However, these figures are not negligible and suggest that preventive measures are needed to contain the epidemic of overweight and cardiovascular disease that will most likely accompany the modernization of Kazakhstan in the next years.

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“…Two strands of literature have emerged on the health of children during crises, the most numerous focusing on developing countries, where considerable height data have been collected since the mid 1980s. In this vein papers have appeared on Cameroon (Pongou, Salomon et al 2006); Kazakhstan (Dangour, Farmer et al 2003); North Korea (Schwekendiek 2008b); Novi Sad (Bozić-Krstić, Pavlica et al 2004); South Africa (Hendriks 2005); and Zimbabwe (Alderman, Hoddinott et al 2006;Hoddinott 2006). The growth of adolescent boys fluctuated seasonally with the supply of food in Czechoslovakia (Cvrcek 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%