Journal Article

Food security and health security: explaining the levels of nutritional status in Pakistan

Garcia, M, Alderman, H

1994

Overview

By viewing nutrition as an output in a production process, policy analysis can consider a broader set of interventions that may influence nutritional outcomes. A model of the production of child nutrition based on survey & field data from Pakistan highlights the critical role of mother's education in achieving nutritional goals in rural areas. If mothers are educated to at least the primary level, the level of child wasting (a short-term indicator of child nutrition) will be reduced by almost 50%, 6 times the overall impact achieved by increasing per capita income 10%. Public health measures also prove important; eg, programs that decrease diarrhea occurrence by 1 day in any 2-week period dramatically reduce the incidence of child wasting. These findings show the need to simultaneously address health & infection concerns. 5 Tables, 1 Appendix. Modified AA

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press,Univ. of Chicago Press
• Subject: Child nutrition / CHILDREN / COMMUNAUTE RURALE / Communities / COMUNIDADES RURALES / Cultural change / Diarrhea / Diseases / DISPONIBILITE ALIMENTAIRE / ECONOMETRIC MODELS / Economic development / Educational Attainment / ENFANT / Ernährung / ESTADO NUTRICIONAL / ETAT NUTRITIONNEL / Factors / FONCTION DE PRODUCTION / Food / Food availability / Food security / FOOD SUPPLY / FUNCIONES DE LA PRODUCCION / Health / Health Care / HOGARES / household income / HOUSEHOLDS / INCOME / Jugendliche / Malnutrition / MENAGE / MODELE ECONOMETRIQUE / MODELOS ECONOMETRICOS / Morbidity / Mothers / NINOS / Nutrition / NUTRITIONAL STATE / NUTRITIONAL STATUS / PAKISTAN / PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS / PUBLIC HEALTH / RENTA / REVENU / RURAL COMMUNITIES / SALUD PUBLICA / SANTE PUBLIQUE / Security / SUMINISTRO DE ALIMENTOS