Determinants of Nutritional Status of Preschool Children from Rural Households in Kaduna and Kano States, Nigeria
| Autor: | Victor M. Manyong, Ifeanyi A. Ojiako, Anthony E. Ikpi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Nutritional status Anthropometry medicine.disease Malnutrition Formal education Dependency ratio Medicine Tobit model Rural area business Socioeconomic status Food Science Demography |
| Zdroj: | Pakistan Journal of Nutrition. 8:1497-1505 |
| ISSN: | 1680-5194 |
| DOI: | 10.3923/pjn.2009.1497.1505 |
| Popis: | The study evaluated the nutritional status of preschool children; identified the influencing factors and estimated the degree of responsiveness of nutritional status index to changes in causal variables. Conducted in five villages selected from Kaduna and Kano States of northern Nigeria, the study used data from selected rural households and anthropometric measurements of preschool children resident therein. Household data were collected using structured questionnaire administered by trained enumerators. The relevant software was used to calculate nutritional status indexes while a two-limit tobit regression analysis, in which the long-term index of height-for-age entered as a dependent variable, was conducted to assess the influence of the explanatory variables on nutritional status. Tobit decomposition framework was used to estimate the elasticities. Results revealed that the proportions of children with either moderate or severe nutritional problems were 61, 17 and 40% using the height-for-age, weight-for-height and weight-for-age measures respectively. Soybean consumption (p |
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