Four issues in undernutrition-related health impact modeling

Undernutrition modeling makes it possible to evaluate the potential impact of such events as a food-price shock or harvest failure on the prevalence and severity of undernutrition. There are, however, uncertainties in such modeling. In this paper we discuss four methodological issues pertinent to im...

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Autores principales: Scovronick, Noah, Chalabi, Zaid, Wilkinson, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Analytic Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24073617
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-10-9
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description Undernutrition modeling makes it possible to evaluate the potential impact of such events as a food-price shock or harvest failure on the prevalence and severity of undernutrition. There are, however, uncertainties in such modeling. In this paper we discuss four methodological issues pertinent to impact estimation: (1) the conventional emphasis on energy intake rather than dietary quality; (2) the importance of the distribution of nutrient intakes; (3) the timing of both the ‘food shock’ and when the response is assessed; and (4) catch-up growth and risk accumulation.
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spelling pubmed-38522892013-12-06 Four issues in undernutrition-related health impact modeling Scovronick, Noah Chalabi, Zaid Wilkinson, Paul Emerg Themes Epidemiol Analytic Perspective Undernutrition modeling makes it possible to evaluate the potential impact of such events as a food-price shock or harvest failure on the prevalence and severity of undernutrition. There are, however, uncertainties in such modeling. In this paper we discuss four methodological issues pertinent to impact estimation: (1) the conventional emphasis on energy intake rather than dietary quality; (2) the importance of the distribution of nutrient intakes; (3) the timing of both the ‘food shock’ and when the response is assessed; and (4) catch-up growth and risk accumulation. BioMed Central 2013-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3852289/ /pubmed/24073617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-10-9 Text en Copyright © 2013 Scovronick et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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