Approaches for assessing the role of household socioeconomic status on child anthropometric measures in urban South Africa

Sheppard, Zoë; Norris, Shane A.; Pettifor, John M.; Cameron, Noël; Griffiths, Paula

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“…The marginally significant associations found in the multivariate analysis between the repetition of 2 years of schooling by Grade 7 and lifetime alcohol can potentially be confounded by the effect of SES and maternal education (28). …”

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“…Household SES was calculated based on an asset index derived from a listing of household assets (home type, home ownership, electricity in home, television, car, fridge, washing machine, phone). The use of an asset indicator as a proxy measurement for SES has been validated in developing country contexts (26–28). Asset scores were generated through an additive index, by attributing a score of 1 to assets which people owned and a score of 0 to assets which participants did not own.…”

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Alcohol use in early and late adolescence among the Birth to Twenty cohort in Soweto, South Africa

Ramsoomar

Morojele

Norris

2013

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BackgroundAlcohol is a risk factor for the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among young people globally. Youth drinking, initiated in early adolescence and continued into early adulthood, is influenced by maternal socio-demographic factors and maternal education. Limited prospective data exists in South Africa on the prevalence of alcohol use during adolescence and adolescent and maternal socio-demographic correlates.ObjectiveTo examine the prevalence of lifetime alcohol use during early (13 years) and late (18 years) adolescence in Soweto, South Africa, and its association with child and maternal socio-demographic factors.MethodsData on alcohol use in early adolescence (age 13 years) and late adolescence (age 18 years) were collected using self-completed pen and paper and self-completed computer-based questionnaires, respectively. Univariate analyses were conducted on child (gender and number of school years repeated by grade 7), maternal socio-demographic correlates (education, marital status, and age), and household socioeconomic status (SES). Bivariate logistic regression analyses examined associations between alcohol use and all child and maternal socio-demographic factors. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted on all the variables found to be significantly (p<0.10) associated with alcohol use to examine the predictive value on alcohol use at early and late adolescence.ResultsLifetime alcohol use increased from 22% at early adolescence to 66% at late adolescence. In multivariate analyses, gender, maternal education, and SES predicted lifetime alcohol use at early adolescence, while gender, maternal education, marital status, and SES were predictive of the same at late adolescence.ConclusionThis study aids researchers and practitioners to identify maternal and child socio-demographic risk profiles for alcohol use to inform policies and programmes.

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Alcohol use in early and late adolescence among the Birth to Twenty cohort in Soweto, South Africa

Ramsoomar

Morojele

Norris

2013

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“…Various individual variables were used to assess socio-economic status (SES) rather than using a wealth index as used by some studies (11,12), as wealth indices are useful when controlling for SES but individual variables are needed to examine different dimensions of SES (17). Another main aim of this paper was to assess inequality in utilising delivery service which can be measured by individual socio-economic variables rather than a wealth index because a wealth index could potentially be a good proxy for wealth but provide poor measurement of inequality (18).…”

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Factors related to choice of place of birth in a district in Nepal

Mahato

Teijlingen

Simkhada³

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Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare

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The analysis indicates that husbands of women giving birth influence the choice of place of birth. The findings highlight importance of having four or more ANC visits to the health institutions and that it should be located within one-hour walking distance. Inequity in utilisation of childbirth services at health institutions exists as showed by low utilisation of such services by disadvantaged caste.

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“…Many of the growth studies founded in the 1930s such as the Bolton- Brush Study, or the Denver Growth Study, have not seen participants for some time. There are, of course, current studies focused on new recruitment and continuing research in longitudinal growth and development, such as the Birth to Twenty Study in South Africa (e.g., Sheppard et al, 2009; Hawley et al, 2012). …”

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Growth of a species, an association, a science: 80 years of growth and development research

Sherwood

Duren

2012

American J Phys Anthropol

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Physical anthropological research was codified in the United States with the creation of the American Association of Physical Anthropology (AAPA) in 1929. That same year, a study began in yellow springs, Ohio, with a goal of identifying “what makes people different.” The approach used to answer that question was to study the growth and development of Homo sapiens. The resulting study, the Fels Longitudinal Study, is currently the longest continuous study of human growth and development in the world. Although the AAPA and the Fels Longitudinal Study have existed as separate entities for more than 80 years now, it is not surprising, given the relationship between anatomical and developmental research, there has been considerable overlap between the two. As the field of physical anthropology has blossomed to include subdisciplines such as forensics, genetics, primatology, as well as sophisticated statistical methodologies, the importance of growth and development research has escalated. Although current Fels Longitudinal Study research is largely directed at biomedical questions, virtually all findings are relevant to physical anthropology, providing insights into basic biological processes and life history parameters. Some key milestones from the early years of the AAPA and the Fels Longitudinal Study are highlighted here that address growth and development research in physical anthropology. These are still held as fundamental concepts that underscore the importance of this line of inquiry, not only across the subdisciplines of physical anthropology, but also among anthropological, biological, and biomedical inquiries.

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Approaches for assessing the role of household socioeconomic status on child anthropometric measures in urban South Africa

Cited by 26 publications

References 36 publications

Alcohol use in early and late adolescence among the Birth to Twenty cohort in Soweto, South Africa

Alcohol use in early and late adolescence among the Birth to Twenty cohort in Soweto, South Africa

Factors related to choice of place of birth in a district in Nepal

Growth of a species, an association, a science: 80 years of growth and development research

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