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Background: In the current era, malnutrition among children considers main reason of morbidity and mortality in the … world scenario while more specifically in developing countries. Malnutrition in children severely affects their physical … growth and academic achievements. This study aimed to find out the effect of socioeconomic factors on malnutrition, children …
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stunting's evolution among South African children and adolescents aged 0–19, with particular attention to how the prevalence of …. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living … standards are controlled for, the higher tendency for children in deep rural households to suffer from (severe) stunting …
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years of stunting's evolution among South African children, adolescents, and young adults aged 0-19, with particular … attention to how the prevalence of under-nutrition differs between urban and rural areas and how the drivers of poor nutrition …. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …
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Child malnutrition continues to be a serious impediment to development both at the individual and national levels in many developing countries. In Mozambique, despite a high and sustained GDP growth, child malnutrition has been decreasing at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this...
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employed to study this effect. The paper finds that the cognitive abilities of children born to rural famine fathers were … affected and that the impact is more pronounced in girls than in boys, whereas children born to female survivors are not …
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country and children under two years during the famine were most adversely affected. We also account for model uncertainty by …
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, 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 …
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relationship between early undernutrition and four foundational cognitive skills, the first two of which measure executive …
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reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting …,604 children under the age of 5. To identify the effect of aid, we rely on spatial and temporal variation in aid project coverage … already for children born in the early project implementation phase and lasts for children born up to 3 years after project …
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Child malnutrition and low-quality diets remain widespread public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Providing access to nutritious and healthy foods for all is key, but it is not at all clear how this can be achieved in various local contexts. Here, we analyze the role of markets and food...
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