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Rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence
Evidence on the impact of weather shocks on child nutrition focuses on linear growth retardation (stunting) and thus, associates the effect of a short-term measure (weather events) on a cumulative measure (attained height). Relatively little is known on how weather shocks predict increases in wastin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765168/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28901334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2017.144 |
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author | Ledlie, N A Alderman, H Leroy, J L You, L |
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description | Evidence on the impact of weather shocks on child nutrition focuses on linear growth retardation (stunting) and thus, associates the effect of a short-term measure (weather events) on a cumulative measure (attained height). Relatively little is known on how weather shocks predict increases in wasting in a population. This study explores whether deviation in rainfall in Ethiopia, a drought prone country, is a sensitive indicator of future increases in wasting. Around 12% of children 0–23 months were wasted, but we found no consistent association between the rainfall shock variables and child weight-for-height Z-scores. The results indicate that monitoring rainfall does not provide a practical early warning to use for scaling up financing and management of preventative measures without additional information to increase precision. |
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spelling | pubmed-57651682018-01-18 Rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence Ledlie, N A Alderman, H Leroy, J L You, L Eur J Clin Nutr Short Communication Evidence on the impact of weather shocks on child nutrition focuses on linear growth retardation (stunting) and thus, associates the effect of a short-term measure (weather events) on a cumulative measure (attained height). Relatively little is known on how weather shocks predict increases in wasting in a population. This study explores whether deviation in rainfall in Ethiopia, a drought prone country, is a sensitive indicator of future increases in wasting. Around 12% of children 0–23 months were wasted, but we found no consistent association between the rainfall shock variables and child weight-for-height Z-scores. The results indicate that monitoring rainfall does not provide a practical early warning to use for scaling up financing and management of preventative measures without additional information to increase precision. Nature Publishing Group 2018-01 2017-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5765168/ /pubmed/28901334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2017.144 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Ledlie, N A Alderman, H Leroy, J L You, L Rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence |
title | Rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence |
title_full | Rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence |
title_fullStr | Rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence |
title_full_unstemmed | Rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence |
title_short | Rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence |
title_sort | rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765168/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28901334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2017.144 |
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