Year-to-year and seasonal variations in stunting among preschool children in Ethiopia

Journal of Health Population and Nutrition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 326-333

  Lindtjørn, Bernt ^a   Alemu, Tadesse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Child growth; Child nutrition disorders; Cohort studies; Ethiopia; Infant growth; Infant nutrition disorders; Seasonal variation; Stunting

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS;

EID: 17444439022     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Vella V, Tomkins A, Borghesi A, Migliori GB, Oryem VY. Determinants of stunting and recovery from stunting in Northwest Uganda. Int J Epidemiol 1994;23:782-6.
2. Adair LS, Guilkey DK. Age-specific determinants of stunting in Filipino children. J Nutr 1997; 127:314-20.
3. Grantham-McGregor S. Linear growth retardation and cognition. Lancet 2002;359:542.
4. Frongillo EA, Jr., de Onis M, Hanson KMP. Socioeconomic and demographic factors are associated with worldwide patterns of stunting and wasting of children. J Nutr 1997;127:2302-9.
5. Pelletier DL, Deneke K, Kidane Y, Haile B, Negussie F. The first food-bias and nutrition policy: lessons from Ethiopia. Food Policy 1995;20:279-98.
6. de Onis M, Frongillo EA, Blössner M. Is malnutrition declining? An analysis of changes in levels of child malnutrition since 1980. Bull World Health Organ 2000;78:1222-33.
7. Ethiopia. Central Statistical Authority. Demographic and health survey 2000. Addis Ababa: Central Statistical Authority, 2001:152-6.
8. Alemu T, Lindtjørn B. Growth velocity among preschool Ethiopian children. Acta Paediatr 1996;85:616-9.
9. Spurr GB. The impact of chronic undernutrition on physical work capacity and daily energy expenditure. In: Harrison GA, Waterlow JC, editors. Diet and disease in traditional and developing societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990:24-61. (Society for the study of human biology symposium, 30).
10. Lindtjørn B, Alemu T, Bjorvatn B. Population growth, fertility, mortality and migration in drought prone areas in Ethiopia. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1993;87:24-8.
11. Lindtjørn B, Alemu T, Bjorvatn B. Dietary pattern and state of nutrition among children in drought-prone areas in southern Ethiopia. Ann Trop Paediatr 1993;13:21-32.
12. Gamatchu D. Aspects of climate and water budget in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press, 1977:17-27.
13. Jelliffe DB, Jelliffe EFP. Community nutritional assessment, with special reference to less technically developed countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. 633 p.
14. World Health Organization. Measuring change in nutritional status: guidelines for assessing the nutritional impact of supplementary feeding programmes for vulnerable groups. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1983. 101 p.
15. de Onis M, Yip R, Mei Z. The development of the MUAC-for-age reference data recommended by the WHO Expert Committee. Bull World Health Organ 1997;75:11-8.
16. Mei Z, Grummer-Strawn LM, de Onis M, Yip R. The development of a MUAC-for-height reference, including a comparison to other nutritional status screening indicators. Bull World Health Organ 1997;75:333-41.
17. SPSS Inc. SPSS Base 7.5 for Windows user's guide. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1997. 628 p.
18. Brown KH, Peerson JM, Rivera J, Allen LH. Effect of supplemental zinc on the growth and serum zinc concentrations of prepubertal children: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Am J Clin Nutr 2002;75:1062-71.
19. Lindtjørn B, Alemu T, Bjorvatn B. Nutritional status and risk of infection among Ethiopian children. J Trop Pediatr 1993;39:76-82.
20. Kloos H. Health impacts of war. In: Kloos H, Zein AZ, editors. The ecology of health and disease in Ethiopia. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993:121-32.
21. Marin CM, Segura JL, Bern C, Freedman DS, Lescano AG, Benavente LE et al. Seasonal change in nutritional status among young children in an urban shanty town in Peru. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1996;90:442-5.
22. Branca F, Pastore G, Demissie T, Ferro-Luzzi A. The nutritional impact of seasonality in children and adults of rural Ethiopia. Eur J Clin Nutr 1993;47:840-50.
23. Panter-Brick C. Seasonal growth patterns in rural Nepali children. Ann Hum Biol 1997;24:1-18.
24. de Onis M, Monteiro C, Akre J, Clugston G. The worldwide magnitude of protein-energy malnutrition: an overview from the WHO Global Database on Child Growth. Bull World Health Organ 1993;71:703-12.