This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate … caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … environment -- on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the effects of social inequities on the health and nutrition of children in low and middle …, differential health outcomes, and differential consequences. The search of the PubMed database since 1990 identified 244 articles … related to the theme. Results were also analyzed from almost 100 recent national surveys, including Demographic Health Surveys …