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The Economic Burden of Malnutrition in Pregnant Women and Children under 5 Years of Age in Cambodia

Malnutrition is locked in a vicious cycle of increased mortality, poor health, impaired cognitive development, slow physical growth, reduced learning capacity, inferior performance, and ultimately lower adult work performance and productivity. The consensus of global scientific evidence indicates th...

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Autores principales: Moench-Pfanner, Regina, Silo, Sok, Laillou, Arnaud, Wieringa, Frank, Hong, Rathamony, Hong, Rathavuth, Poirot, Etienne, Bagriansky, Jack
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Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27187462
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu8050292
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author Moench-Pfanner, Regina
Silo, Sok
Laillou, Arnaud
Wieringa, Frank
Hong, Rathamony
Hong, Rathavuth
Poirot, Etienne
Bagriansky, Jack
author_facet Moench-Pfanner, Regina
Silo, Sok
Laillou, Arnaud
Wieringa, Frank
Hong, Rathamony
Hong, Rathavuth
Poirot, Etienne
Bagriansky, Jack
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description Malnutrition is locked in a vicious cycle of increased mortality, poor health, impaired cognitive development, slow physical growth, reduced learning capacity, inferior performance, and ultimately lower adult work performance and productivity. The consensus of global scientific evidence indicates that lowering the rates of malnutrition will be an indispensable component of any successful program to raise the quality of human capital and resources. This study used a “consequence model” to apply the coefficient risk-deficit on economic losses, established in the global scientific literature, to Cambodian health, demographic, and economic data to develop a national estimate of the value of economic losses due to malnutrition. The impact of the indicators of malnutrition analyzed represent a burden to the national economy of Cambodia estimated at 266 million USD annually (1.7% of GDP). Stunting is reducing the Cambodian economic output by more than 120 million USD, and iodine deficiency disorders alone by 57 million USD. This economic burden is too high in view of Cambodia’s efforts to drive economic development. The government should rapidly expand a range of low-cost effective nutrition interventions to break the current cycle of increased mortality, poor health and ultimately lower work performance, productivity, and earnings.
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spelling pubmed-48827052016-05-27 The Economic Burden of Malnutrition in Pregnant Women and Children under 5 Years of Age in Cambodia Moench-Pfanner, Regina Silo, Sok Laillou, Arnaud Wieringa, Frank Hong, Rathamony Hong, Rathavuth Poirot, Etienne Bagriansky, Jack Nutrients Article Malnutrition is locked in a vicious cycle of increased mortality, poor health, impaired cognitive development, slow physical growth, reduced learning capacity, inferior performance, and ultimately lower adult work performance and productivity. The consensus of global scientific evidence indicates that lowering the rates of malnutrition will be an indispensable component of any successful program to raise the quality of human capital and resources. This study used a “consequence model” to apply the coefficient risk-deficit on economic losses, established in the global scientific literature, to Cambodian health, demographic, and economic data to develop a national estimate of the value of economic losses due to malnutrition. The impact of the indicators of malnutrition analyzed represent a burden to the national economy of Cambodia estimated at 266 million USD annually (1.7% of GDP). Stunting is reducing the Cambodian economic output by more than 120 million USD, and iodine deficiency disorders alone by 57 million USD. This economic burden is too high in view of Cambodia’s efforts to drive economic development. The government should rapidly expand a range of low-cost effective nutrition interventions to break the current cycle of increased mortality, poor health and ultimately lower work performance, productivity, and earnings. MDPI 2016-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4882705/ /pubmed/27187462 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu8050292 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Bagriansky, Jack
The Economic Burden of Malnutrition in Pregnant Women and Children under 5 Years of Age in Cambodia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27187462
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu8050292
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