Factors associated with nutritional status among young children in St. Vincent
Ecol Food Nutr
; 10: 135-41, 1981.
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ABSTRACT
A survey was undertaken in 1975 in St. Vincent, West Indies, among the mothers of nearly all children from one to two years old in two towns. The mean weight for age was 85 percent of the Boston Standard and the mean weight for height was 95.5 percent of the standard. Levels of malnutrition were similar to those found in a national survey eight years earlier. Using multiple regression analysis, the variable which had by far the greatest impact on nutritional status (weight for age) was economic level of living. Next in importance came length of breastfeeding, attendance at postnatal clinics, and (with a negative association) the number of siblings. Efforts to solve the EPM problem must seek to eradicate poverty, but should not neglect the importance of breastfeeding, child, spacing, and appropriate health care. (AU)
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Base de dados:
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Assunto principal:
Estado Nutricional
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Nutrição do Lactente
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe ingles
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San vicente y las grenadinas
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ecol Food Nutr
Ano de publicação:
1981
Tipo de documento:
Article