Risk factors for wasting and stunting among children in Metro Cebu, Philippines
| Autor: | Stan Becker, Judith A. Ricci |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Gerontology Aging Longitudinal study Cross-sectional study Philippines Population Medicine (miscellaneous) Rural Health Risk Factors Environmental health medicine Birth Weight Humans Longitudinal Studies Risk factor education Socioeconomic status Wasting Growth Disorders education.field_of_study Nutrition and Dietetics Anthropometry Data Collection Infant Newborn Urban Health Infant medicine.disease Nutrition Disorders Malnutrition Breast Feeding Cross-Sectional Studies Socioeconomic Factors Child Preschool Female medicine.symptom Breast feeding |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 63:966-975 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9165 |
| Popis: | Risk factors for wasting and stunting were examined in a longitudinal study of 18 544 children younger than 30 mo in Metro Cebu, Philippines. Measures of household demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, maternal characteristics and behavior, and child biological variables were analyzed cross-sectionally in six child age-residence strata by using logistic regression. Our results support biological and epidemiologic evidence that wasting and stunting represent different processes of malnutrition. They also indicate that the principal risk factors for stunting and wasting in infants < 6 mo of age were either maternal behaviors or child biological characteristics under maternal control, eg, breast-feeding status and birth weight. After 6 mo of age, household socioeconomic characteristics emerged with behavioral and biological variables as important determinants of malnutrition, eg, father's education and presence of a television and/or radio. Household socioeconomic status influenced the risk of stunting earlier in rural than in urban barangays. Implications of the results for interventions are discussed. |
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