Prevalencia de deficits nutricionais em criancas menores de cinco anos em Angola

Fernandes, Ema Cândida Branco; Monteiro, Rosane Aparecida; Ribeiro, Luciana Cisoto; Sartorelli, Daniela Saes

doi:10.1590/s0034-8910.2013047004576

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“…However, when they divided the population using the wealth index (which is based on quality of life and ownership of goods), poor children in urban areas were just as likely to have wasting and stunting as children from rural areas with the same economic conditions. Despite the rural localization of the commune, with poor housing conditions and access to basic sanitation and health services 11 , we observed that the likelihood of suffering from the different deficit Table 3. Prevalence, ratio of gross prevalence and respective confidence intervals between nutritional deficits and variables related to morbidity during the previous 15 days in children under five years old.…”

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“…This commune is part of the Icolo and Bengo municipalities, and it is located in a rural area of the province of Luanda, with poor housing conditions and access to basic sanitation and health services 11 . An investigation about vaccination coverage among under 5 years old in this commune, conducted in the same year of the present study, registered also a low vaccination coverage (37%) and that 52% of children had no immunization records 12 .…”

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“…The nutritional deficits represented a serious problem of public health among the under 5 years old in this area, with prevalence of 22%, 13% and 7%, respectively, for the deficits height-for-age, weight-for-height and weight-for-age 11 .…”

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“…As described elsewhere, briefly, we used a systematic sampling technique 11 to select one third of households from each neighborhood (Bom Jesus commune has 10 neighborhoods). A total of 487 households were included, with a total of 766 children.…”

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“…Of these, 4.4% were absent from the commune, suffered from chronic diseases or presented outliers values for the anthropometric indexes (according to World Health Organization [WHO]) 13 and were therefore excluded from the analysis, resulting in a final sample of 742 children (96.9% of the eligible children). Most children were male (54.3%) and the mean age was 24.6 (±16.8) months old (for more details consult Fernandes et al 11 ).…”

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Objective: To identify the determinants of wasting and stunting in children under five years old in the commune of Bom Jesus, Angola Methods: A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted with 742 children in 2010, and nutritional deficits were defined by World Health Organization criteria. Prevalence ratios and associated factors of wasting and stunting were estimated using Poisson regression with robust variance, using a conceptual hierarchical model Results: For both deficits, there were significant differences in the prevalence ratios according to the children's neighborhood and age. Boys and those children living in households whose water supply came from the river or lake, as well those with recent expulsion of parasites and infections were more likely to present stunting. Children of fathers with higher number of children or that which the fathers were not living at home and whose mothers were 25-34 years old were less likely to have wasting Conclusion: It was identified independent variables from different levels of determination of malnutrition, standing out the basic sanitation conditions and family structure as important predictors of the nutritional deficits. The knowledge of the associated factors of malnutrition may contribute for subside public policies in planning interventions to improve the childhood nutrition status in Bom Jesus and communes with similar characteristics in Angola.

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Copula Geo-Additive Modeling of Anaemia and Malnutrition among Children under Five Years in Angola, Senegal, and Malawi

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Notwithstanding the interventions implemented to address child mortality, anaemia and malnutrition remain a concern for the future of developing countries. Anaemia and malnutrition contribute a high proportion of the causes of childhood morbidity in Africa. The objective of this study is to jointly model anaemia and malnutrition using a copula geo-additive model. This study is a secondary data analysis where a Demographic and Health Survey of 2016 data from Angola, Malawi, and Senegal was used. The descriptive analysis was conducted in SPSS and the copula geo-additive model analysis was performed in R 3.63. The results showed that female children are notably associated with anaemia and a malnourished status (female estimate = 0.144, p-value = 0.027 for anaemia; female estimate = −0.105, p-value = 000 for malnutrition). The probability of each result decreased with an improvement in the mother’s level of schooling. This indicates an urgent requirement for interventions to be implemented by policymakers in order to manage children’s mortality rates. These interventions can include the introduction of educational programs for older adults, children’s dietary programs, and income generation initiatives (starting a small business, etc.). It is hoped that this paper can foster the utilization of copula methodology in this field of science with the use of cross-sectional data.

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Prevalencia de deficits nutricionais em criancas menores de cinco anos em Angola

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Associated factors of malnutrition among African children under five years old, Bom Jesus, Angola

Associated factors of malnutrition among African children under five years old, Bom Jesus, Angola

Copula Geo-Additive Modeling of Anaemia and Malnutrition among Children under Five Years in Angola, Senegal, and Malawi

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