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Journal Article
Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India
2005
Overview
Undernutrition continues to be a primary cause of ill-health and premature mortality among children in developing countries. This paper examines how the prevalence of undernutrition in children is measured and argues that the standard indices of stunting, wasting and underweight may each be underestimating the scale of the problem. This has important implications for policy-makers, planners and organizations seeking to meet international development targets. Using anthropometric data on 24 396 children in India, we constructed an alternative composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) and compared it with conventional indices. The CIAF examines the relationship between distinct subgroups of anthropometric failure, poverty and morbidity, showing that children with multiple anthropometric failures are at a greater risk of morbidity and are more likely to come from poorer households. While recognizing that stunting, wasting and underweight reflect distinct biological processes of clear importance, the CIAF is the only measure that provides a single, aggregated figure of the number of undernourished children in a population.
Publisher
Organisation mondiale de la santé,World Health Organization,The World Health Organization
Subject
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Child
/ Child Nutrition Disorders - complications
/ Child Nutrition Disorders - economics
/ Child Nutrition Disorders - epidemiology
/ Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena - physiology
/ Children
/ Diarrea
/ Diarrhea
/ Failure
/ Humans
/ Indexes
/ India
/ Infant
/ Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena - physiology
/ Infecciones del tracto respiratorio
/ LDCs
/ Malnutrition - complications
/ Nutritionally induced diseases
/ Other nutritional diseases (malnutrition, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies...)
/ Pobreza
/ Poverty
/ Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
/ Respiratory Tract Infections - etiology
