Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia: Can Maternal Knowledge Augment the Role of Income?

Christiaensen, Luc; Alderman, Harold

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“…There was a significant relationship between household wealth and stunting, with children from poorer households being more likely to suffer from stunting. This finding concurs with previous studies regarding wealth status of child's household and stunting (Christiaensen and Alderman, 2004;Girma and Genebo, 2002;Glewwe et al, 2002). This relationship could be explained by the fact that rich people are able to afford good living conditions that may improve the child's health including nutrition (Obeng, 2003).…”

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Prevalence of malnutrition among preschool children (6-59 months) in Western Province, Kenya

Kisiangani¹,

Munier²,

Makokha³

et al. 2014

J. Public Health Epidemiol.

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Malnutrition being one of the major public health problems in developing countries, it is still unacceptably high and progress to reduce it in most regions of the world is low. In Eastern Africa region, stunting and being underweight is estimated at 48 and 36% and are expected to increase over the next decade. There is limited information available on the prevalence of malnutrition in this area. This study determined nutritional status, and examined correlates of stunting among the children. This was a cross-sectional study undertaken among 125 preschoolers in western province, drawn from 37 clusters. For each cluster a total of 10 households were selected using systematic simple random sampling. Data were collected on nutritional status, socioeconomic status, food consumption and current malaria infection status. The prevalence of stunting (Z-scores for height for age [HAZ] <-2), wasting (Z-scores for weight for height [WHZ] < -2) and being underweight (Z-scores for weight for age [WAZ] < -2) was 28.9, 1.7 and 6.6%, respectively. Stunting was associated with poverty (OR=4.29, 95% CI: 1.06-17.36, p= 0.037) and lack of consumption of solid foods that include ripe mangoes, pawpaw and guavas (OR=3.15, 95% CI: 1.11-8.94, p=0.025), fish (OR=4.1, 95% CI: 1.15-14.61, p=0.021) and eggs (OR=4.42, 95% CI: 0.97-20.08, p=0.039). Child growth is a good indicator of nutritional status of both the individual and the community. The study demonstrates a high prevalence of stunting. Given the acute and long term consequences of malnutrition, interventions aimed at reducing child malnutrition in such a population should focus on all children less than 5 years of age.

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Prevalence of malnutrition among preschool children (6-59 months) in Western Province, Kenya

Kisiangani¹,

Munier²,

Makokha³

et al. 2014

J. Public Health Epidemiol.

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“…A negative interaction effect between maternal education and community services been identified in micro-level studies of developing countries such as Brazil and the Philippines (Strauss et al, 1991;Barrera, 1990). More recent studies have emphasized the importance of maternal knowledge of nutrition and hygiene for child health, especially for low educated mothers (Christiaensen andAlderman, 2004, Block 2007). While more education may be helpful, much of the relevant knowledge is obtained through health service workers (Glewwe, 1999).…”

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How have Europeans grown so tall?

Hatton¹

2013

Oxford Economic Papers

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How have Europeans Grown so Tall?* Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in the average health of populations. The literature associates stature with a variety of socioeconomic variables, and much of the focus is on the nineteenth century and on the last 50 years. In this paper I present and analyse a new dataset for the average height of adult male cohorts, from the mid-nineteenth century to 1980, in fifteen European countries. In little more than a century average height increased by 11cm--representing a dramatic improvement in health. Interestingly, there was a distinct acceleration in the period spanning the two World Wars and the Great Depression. I examine the influence of socioeconomic variables on height through the two key channels: nutrition and the disease environment. The evidence suggests that the most important single cause of increasing height was the improving disease environment as reflected by the fall in infant mortality. Rising income and education and falling family size had more modest effects. Improvements in health care are hard to identify and the effects of the welfare state spending seem to have been small. JEL Classification: I12, I38 and N24

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“…Papers that do assess the impact of interventions on nutritional status, often deal with programs such as food aid and food for work in the aftermath of a drought shock (Yamano et al forthcoming;Quisumbing 2003). Others such as Christiaensen and Alderman (2004) deal with the additional impact of nutrition education over the more general impact of schooling. This paper focuses on the role of income growth in combination with two types of nutrition interventions in northwestern Tanzania, community driven supplementary feeding of young children, feeding posts, and child feeding carried out in crèches run by an international NGO, Partage.…”

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Reducing Child Malnutrition in Tanzania - Combined Effects of Income Growth and Program Interventions

Alderman¹,

Hoogeveen²,

Rossi³

2005

Policy Research Working Papers

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Malnutrition is associated with an inadequate diet, poor health and sanitation services and insufficient care for young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this issue (Haddad et al. 2003), yet evidence to support this claim is often not available, especially for African settings. This paper evaluates the joint contribution of income growth and nutrition interventions towards the reduction of malnutrition. Using a four round panel data set from northwestern Tanzania we estimate the determinants of a child's nutritional status, including household income and the presence of nutrition interventions in the community. The results show that better nutrition is associated with higher income, and that nutrition interventions have a substantial beneficial effect. Policy simulations make clear that if one intends to halve malnutrition rates by 2015 (the MDG objective), income growth will have to be complemented by large scale program interventions.

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Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia: Can Maternal Knowledge Augment the Role of Income?

Cited by 193 publications

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Prevalence of malnutrition among preschool children (6-59 months) in Western Province, Kenya

Prevalence of malnutrition among preschool children (6-59 months) in Western Province, Kenya

How have Europeans grown so tall?

Reducing Child Malnutrition in Tanzania - Combined Effects of Income Growth and Program Interventions

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