status of children in the largest urban slum of Bangladesh. Methods: We use anthropometric weight-for-age nutrition status of … children for an ordered logistic analysis. Our dataset gives us the advantage of segregating health knowledge into three … understand male and female children nutritional function differences. Results: Per capita income significantly improves child …

years) children in urban and slum areas.The ultimate objective is to frame policy proposals for children’s nutritional …),while provision of electricity, safe drinking water and underground drainage turns out to be negatively affecting children …’s malnutrition. The children living in slums are more likely to experience anthropometric failure. Research limitations …

focuses on recently migrant adolescent girls in India’s fast growing urban slum population for whom multiple vulnerabilities … through frontline workers and slum-women’s groups are recommended. On the health access front, in India it is easier for women … circumstances, opportunities and challenges faced by recent migrant slum-dwelling adolescent girls. The study was conducted in fast …

, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect … of mother adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth and development from infancy through adolescence using data from … Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam and Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation that employs rainfall shocks during mother …

undernutrition and poverty. This study uses longitudinal data that include math, reading, and receptive vocabulary test scores at … ages eight and 15 years for children in four low- and middle-income countries.We find associations between nutrition status … with nutritional status at age 12 and with preadolescence wealth at age 12 for boys in India and Peru, as well as all boys …

difference in difference comparison of cohorts to assess the impact on the proportion of underweight children who lived in … being underweight for children in programme villages after introduction of the intervention was 0.83 (95% CI 0.686, 1 …