Prevalence of nutritional wasting in populations: building explanatory models using secondary data.
OBJECTIVE: To understand how social context affects the nutritional status of populations, as reflected by the prevalence of wasting in children under 5 years of age from Africa, Latin America, and Asia; to present a systematic way of building models for wasting prevalence, using a conceptual framew...
| Published in: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 282 - 292 |
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World Health Organization
2002
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106959079&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106959079 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00429686 BUW jtl: Bulletin of the World Health Organization issn: 00429686 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2002 vid: 80 iid: 4 pid: 437 pub: World Health Organization artinfo: ui: 106959079 106959079 2002113261 NLM12075364 106959079 ppf: 282 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Prevalence of nutritional wasting in populations: building explanatory models using secondary data. aug: au: Fernandez ID Himes JH de Onis M affil: Assistant Professor, Dept of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 644, Rochester, NY 14642; diana_fernandez@urmc.rochester.edu sug: subj: Child Nutrition Disorders Epidemiology Child Nutrition Nutritional Status In Infancy and Childhood Africa Asia Latin America Cross Sectional Studies Ecological Research Survey Research T-Tests Goodness of Fit Chi Square Test Data Analysis, Statistical Data Analysis Software Regression Descriptive Statistics P-Value Nutrition Disorders Etiology Maternal-Child Care Trends Child, Preschool Human Child, Preschool: 2-5 years ab: OBJECTIVE: To understand how social context affects the nutritional status of populations, as reflected by the prevalence of wasting in children under 5 years of age from Africa, Latin America, and Asia; to present a systematic way of building models for wasting prevalence, using a conceptual framework for the determinants of malnutrition; and to examine the feasibility of using readily available data collected over time to build models of wasting prevalence in populations. METHODS: Associations between prevalence of wasting and environmental variables were examined in the three regions. General linear mixed models were fitted using anthropometric survey data for countries within each region. FINDINGS: Low birth weight (LBW), measles incidence, and access to a safe water supply explained 64% of wasting variability in Asia. In Latin America, LBW and survey year explained 38%; in Africa, LBW, survey year, and adult literacy explained 7%. CONCLUSION: LBW emerged as a predictor of wasting prevalence in all three regions. Actions regarding women's rights may have an effect on the nutritional status of children since LBW seems to reflect several aspects of the conditions of women in society. Databases have to be made compatible with each other to facilitate integrated analysis for nutritional research and policy decision-making. In addition, the validity of the variables representing the conceptual framework should be improved. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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