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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Stunting"”.
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Socioeconomic differentials in child stunting in rural and urban areas in Zambia
Child stunting remains one of the biggest public health concerns in Zambia and other low and middle-income countries (LMICs). A formidable challenge faced in improving child health outcomes in LMICs includes persistent socioeconomic and residential disparities. Despite achieving an overall decline …
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Inequalities in Child Health in Tanzania: Evidence on Structural and Systemic Determinants of Stunting
Child stunting remains a persistent public health and development challenge in Tanzania, with approximately one in three children under five affected. While nutrition-specific interventions have traditionally dominated, progress remains slow. This study adopts a multidimensional approach to examine …
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Local government coordination capacity in reducing stunting prevalence : cases of Bekasi city and Bogor city
Stunting remains a global problem, including in Indonesia. Despite the nature of stunting reduction as a benevolent policy, which tends to be less prioritized by politicians, many countries have succeeded in reducing stunting. It raised a question: under what conditions does the government pursue …
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High Prevalence of Zinc Deficiency and Stunting Found in Children Aged 6-60 Months in Rural Honduras
… zinc status. <-2 z-score was used to determine stunting (height-for-age); wasting (weightfor- height); and underweight (weight-for-age). Zinc deficiency was defined as <70 μg/g and marginal deficiency as 70-100 μg/g. Bivariate correlations and chi square analysis were used to determine …
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Contributing factors to child stunting in Guatemala: A systems analysis focused on enteric disease transmission and mycotoxin exposure
"Child stunting -- low height-for-age -- is a United Nation's indicator for chronic malnutrition that has been linked to both acute and chronic health problems. Data from Guatemala suggests for children under five years of age, 49% are classified as stunted. This dissertation tests the following …
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Early Undernutrition and Unmet Learning Needs: Exploring Relationships between Stunting, Cognition, and Teacher Perceptions of Early Grade Learning in Ghana
… processing speed, and memory; and whether stunting correlates with teacher perceptions of student performance on predictors of successful classroom learning. To do so, 228 Dagbani-speaking students in the first year of primary school (P1) were recruited from 11 rural and peri-urban schools …
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Stunting in pre-school and school-age children in the Peruvian highlands and its association with Fasciola infection and demographic factors
… malnutrition in children, as manifested by stunting, leads to delayed cognitive development and lost productivity. We hypothesized that fascioliasis is among the factors associated with stunting in children from endemic areas. We conducted a cross-sectional study among children attending …
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Describing The Nutritional Outcomes Following Paediatric Liver Transplantation At A Tertiary Hospital In South Africa
… in the analysis. Pre-transplant prevalence of stunting was 57,1%, with 32,1% of children severely stunted. At 24 months post-transplant 65,5% of children were stunted, with 44,8% severely stunted. Overweight and obesity prevalence was 0% pretransplant, and 32,2% and 27,6% at 12- and 24-months …
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Growth and determinants at two years of age in a South African birth cohort
… (wasting, underweight for age and or stunting), overweight for age or obesity. Logistic regression was done to identify predictors of undernutrition, overweight or obesity at 2 years. Results: Anthropometric data from 897 children (51% male; 22% HIV-exposed, uninfected) were included. …
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Using quantitative analysis to identify binding development constraints and options for their alleviation - two case studies in health and vocational training in Zambia
… assesses health inequality in Zambia using Child stunting as a health variable. The paper finds that those in the poorest group had more than thrice the Child stunting rate of the richest group, proving the existence of health inequality in Zambia. The paper further investigates the factors …
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Determinants of Levels and Trends in Child Mortality in Rural Northern Malawi
… vaccines. We examined whether the prevalence of stunting or the risk of child mortality associated with stunting reduced over time in the KHDSS, as might be expected given the large proportion of child mortality that has been attributed to stunting globally. Stunting increased over time in the …
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NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF SCHOOLING CHILDREN IN TANZANIA AND UGANDA: RESEARCH AND ACTION
… on malnutrition prevalences thus observing that stunting is overestimated, overweight is underestimated, wasting and underweight are not affected by age imprecision. Assessment: We have assessed the nutritional status of 1254 children, 423 in Tanzania and 831 in Uganda, in five schools with …
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Investigating family social capital and child health: a case study of South Africa
… in this study was operationalized to include: stunting, wasting, and parent-reported health of a child. Results showed that children from the poorest families bear the largest burden of stunting, wasting, and ill health. Similarly, children from poorer households possessed more family social …
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Association between dietary intake, health status and nutritional status of children aged 6-23 months in Namwala and Mkushi districts of Zambia
… of malnutrition which is described in forms of stunting, underweight, overweight and wasting in children 6-23 months include poor infant stimulation and nurturing, inadequate dietary nutrients and recurrent illnesses/infections which result in poor absorption of nutrients, poor cognitive …
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Hungering for Survival: Trends in under-5 malnutrition and attributable disease burden
… data to generate time series of wasting, stunting, and underweight, we employed the comparative risk assessment method to calculate death and disease burden attributable to these three indicators of malnutrition. Deaths attributable to stunting declined from a peak of 3.89 (95% confidence …
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Growth Analysis of Mixed Ancestry Infants Aged 0 – 18 months, South Africa
… 1-10 years) have a significantly higher risk for stunting (according to WHO growth standards) compared to other population groups. Adults of MA have the second highest type II diabetes mellitus prevalence, and hypertension doubled between 2008-2016. Insight into healthy MA infant growth may help …
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The influence of birth weight on under-five children’s nutritional status in Zambia
… logistic regression, producing Odds Ratios of Stunting, Underweight and Wasting among under-five children associated with birthweight were used. The sample included Children aged 0–59 months of age, women aged 15–49 years of age for whom complete and plausible anthropometric data were collected …
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The influence of birth weight on under-five children’s nutritional status in Zambia
… logistic regression, producing Odds Ratios of Stunting, Underweight and Wasting among under-five children associated with birthweight were used. The sample included Children aged 0–59 months of age, women aged 15–49 years of age for whom complete and plausible anthropometric data were collected …
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The relationship between employment status of the mother, household hunger and nutritional status of children in Sekhukhune District, Limpopo Province
… year 2012, South Africa had a prevalence rate of stunting in children aged 1- 3, 4 - 6 and 7 – 9 years at 26.5%, 11.9% and 9.4%, respectively (Shisana et al. (2013). The Greater Sekhukhune District Municipality (GSDM) also showed a high rate of stunting (36%) in children aged 13 to 215 months of …
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An assessment of the nutritional status of children under five years in Maputaland, Kwa-Zulu-Natal
… of Mapataland, namely, Mangnza and Ngwavuma. Stunting, underweight, acute under nutrition and lower upper arm measurement were prevalent is children of Mapataland. The average diet contained an adequate amount of portion from the meat and cereals group but had inadequate content milk and …
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