Title |
Household food access and child malnutrition: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study
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Published in |
Population Health Metrics, December 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1478-7954-10-24 |
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Authors |
Stephanie Psaki, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Tahmeed Ahmed, Shamsir Ahmed, Pascal Bessong, Munirul Islam, Sushil John, Margaret Kosek, Aldo Lima, Cebisa Nesamvuni, Prakash Shrestha, Erling Svensen, Monica McGrath, Stephanie Richard, Jessica Seidman, Laura Caulfield, Mark Miller, William Checkley, and MALED Network Investigators |
Abstract |
Stunting results from decreased food intake, poor diet quality, and a high burden of early childhood infections, and contributes to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although food insecurity is an important determinant of child nutrition, including stunting, development of universal measures has been challenging due to cumbersome nutritional questionnaires and concerns about lack of comparability across populations. We investigate the relationship between household food access, one component of food security, and indicators of nutritional status in early childhood across eight country sites. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 2 | 33% |
Canada | 1 | 17% |
Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
India | 2 | <1% |
Bangladesh | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 225 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 50 | 22% |
Researcher | 38 | 16% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 28 | 12% |
Student > Bachelor | 21 | 9% |
Student > Postgraduate | 14 | 6% |
Other | 29 | 13% |
Unknown | 51 | 22% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 47 | 20% |
Social Sciences | 29 | 13% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 27 | 12% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 24 | 10% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 8 | 3% |
Other | 33 | 14% |
Unknown | 63 | 27% |