A Pattern of Weight Gain Ingambian Babies During the First 18 Months of Life*

Marsden, Philip D.; Marsden, Sharon

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“…The scientific literature concerning seasonal effects on food availability, food consumption, birth weight, children's growth, mortality, and morbidity during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s in Africa is abundant [2,6,[10][11][12][13][15][16][17]23] and has been summarized by Longhurst and Payne [7] and Valverde et al [22]. In general, rainy and pre-harvest months are each associated separately with a peak in the incidence of disease as well as lower energy and nutrient intakes.…”

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Seasonality in Health and Nutrition on a Guatemalan Coffee Plantation

et al. 1986

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This study, which focuses on a plantation, as well as the study by Bidinger et al., which concerns a village, failed to find the marked seasonal changes in food consumption reported for many other parts of the world. It would be a serious mistake to consider that these studies contradict in any way the findings of those who report seasonal variations They are published, however, as a reminder that generalizations cannot be used to predict specific cases and that, conversely, great caution must be used in generalizing from specific cases. The characteristics of the sites in both studies offer adequate explanation of why they did not fit the expected pattern of seasonal variation despite distinct rainy and dry seasons and harvest and non-harvest periods. It should be noted, however, that both Valverde et al. and Bidinger et al. did observe the anticipated marked seasonal differences in morbidity from diarrhoeal and other infectious diseases.

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Section: Observe the Anticipated Marked Seasonal Differences In Morbimentioning

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Seasonality in Health and Nutrition on a Guatemalan Coffee Plantation

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“…The irregular nature of the weight gain in children in developing countries has frequently been noted. (Marsden and Marsden, 1964;Meyers, 1951;McLaren, 1960;Welbourn, 1955;McGregor, Billewicz and Thomson, 1961;Sachs, 1962;Bailey, 1964;Gordon, Chitkara and Wyon, 1963).…”

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Malnutrition and infection in the Bapedi

Waldmann

1976

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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“…Anthropométrie studies of young children in The Gambia, West Africa, have indicated that low weight-for-age and weight-for-height are considerably more common during the rains than in the dry season (Marsden and Marsden, 1965;Rowland et al, 1981), and it is possible that the relationships between socioeconomic status and growth are stronger in some seasons than others.…”

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Socio‐economic factors associated with child growth in two seasons in an Urban Gambian Community

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Hayes²,

Dunn³

et al. 1986

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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The relationships between nutritional status and 24 social and economic factors were investigated during the dry season and at the end of the rainy season in about 300 children aged 6 to 35 months living in the urban community of Bakau in The Gambia. Height-for-age was associated with the style of house and various other factors related to living conditions, the presence of the father in the compound and the parity of the mother. The associations were similar in both seasons. Weight-for-age showed similar, though weaker, associations in the rainy season, but there was little relationship between the socioeconomic factors and weight-for-age during the dry season. Few children had low weight-for-height in this community, and there was little relationship between weight-for-height and socio-economic factors. This study emphasises the need to consider the effect of seasonal variations when assessing the relationship between nutritional status and socio-economic factors.107

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A Pattern of Weight Gain Ingambian Babies During the First 18 Months of Life*

Cited by 20 publications

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Seasonality in Health and Nutrition on a Guatemalan Coffee Plantation

Seasonality in Health and Nutrition on a Guatemalan Coffee Plantation

Malnutrition and infection in the Bapedi

Socio‐economic factors associated with child growth in two seasons in an Urban Gambian Community

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