Synergies in Child Nutrition : Interactions of Food Security, Health and Environment, and Child Care
This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic envir...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26695872/synergies-child-nutrition-interactions-food-security-health-environment-child-care http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25039 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the extent to which
the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food
security; adequate caregiving resources at the maternal,
household, and community levels; and access to health
services and a safe and hygienic environment -- on their own
and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes,
such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on data from
different years in eight countries in four regions where
malnutrition is high, an indicator is constructed for each
component of the three underlying drivers of nutrition. In
spite of the limitations inherent in the available data, the
analysis (i) reveals that progress toward improved access to
adequate food security and adequate environment and health
has been quite limited; and (ii) provides evidence of
significant synergies among adequate food, child care, and
environment and health. |
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