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A survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural Western China
BACKGROUND: Childhood undernutrition adversely impacts child health and is one of China’s largest health burdens. However, there is limited information on the current rate of childhood undernutrition in rural Western China. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of childhood und...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24499429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-121 |
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author | Pei, Leilei Ren, Lin Yan, Hong |
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description | BACKGROUND: Childhood undernutrition adversely impacts child health and is one of China’s largest health burdens. However, there is limited information on the current rate of childhood undernutrition in rural Western China. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of childhood undernutrition and explore its association with socio-economic characteristics in Western China. METHODS: A total of 13,532 children of 0 ~ 36 months of age were recruited as subjects from 45 counties and 10 provinces in Western China with a 3-stage probability proportion to size sampling. The composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) was used to assess the childhood undernutrition. The association between socio-economic characteristics and childhood undernutrition was analyzed using a two-level logistic regression. RESULTS: Based on CIAF, the prevalence of undernutrition among children under three years of age in rural Western China in 2005 was 21.7%. The two-level logistic analysis presented a large difference in undernutrition among the 10 provinces with the highest odds ratio in Guizhou (OR: 2.15, 95%CI: 1.50, 3.08). Older children had a higher prevalence of undernutrition. As compared to girls, boys were more likely to be undernourished (OR 1.27, 95% CI: 1.16, 1.39). The likelihood of undernutrition was lower in subjects of Han ethnicity as opposed to subjects of minority ethnicities (OR 0.77, 95%CI: 0.65, 0.90). In addition, the education levels of the mother as well as wealth index were both negatively associated with childhood undernutrition. CONCLUSIONS: Childhood undernutrition still remains a large health challenge in rural Western China. This study has important policy implications for the Chinese government to improve childhood undernutrition in the surveyed areas. |
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spelling | pubmed-39181422014-02-25 A survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural Western China Pei, Leilei Ren, Lin Yan, Hong BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Childhood undernutrition adversely impacts child health and is one of China’s largest health burdens. However, there is limited information on the current rate of childhood undernutrition in rural Western China. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of childhood undernutrition and explore its association with socio-economic characteristics in Western China. METHODS: A total of 13,532 children of 0 ~ 36 months of age were recruited as subjects from 45 counties and 10 provinces in Western China with a 3-stage probability proportion to size sampling. The composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) was used to assess the childhood undernutrition. The association between socio-economic characteristics and childhood undernutrition was analyzed using a two-level logistic regression. RESULTS: Based on CIAF, the prevalence of undernutrition among children under three years of age in rural Western China in 2005 was 21.7%. The two-level logistic analysis presented a large difference in undernutrition among the 10 provinces with the highest odds ratio in Guizhou (OR: 2.15, 95%CI: 1.50, 3.08). Older children had a higher prevalence of undernutrition. As compared to girls, boys were more likely to be undernourished (OR 1.27, 95% CI: 1.16, 1.39). The likelihood of undernutrition was lower in subjects of Han ethnicity as opposed to subjects of minority ethnicities (OR 0.77, 95%CI: 0.65, 0.90). In addition, the education levels of the mother as well as wealth index were both negatively associated with childhood undernutrition. CONCLUSIONS: Childhood undernutrition still remains a large health challenge in rural Western China. This study has important policy implications for the Chinese government to improve childhood undernutrition in the surveyed areas. BioMed Central 2014-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3918142/ /pubmed/24499429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-121 Text en Copyright © 2014 Pei 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 credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Pei, Leilei Ren, Lin Yan, Hong A survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural Western China |
title | A survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural Western China |
title_full | A survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural Western China |
title_fullStr | A survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural Western China |
title_full_unstemmed | A survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural Western China |
title_short | A survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural Western China |
title_sort | survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural western china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24499429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-121 |
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