Assessments of the nutritional status of children on the Nembi plateau in 1978 and 1980

Crittenden, Robert; Baines, Janis

doi:10.1080/03670244.1985.9990887

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“…In Papua New Guinea, rapid growth faltering has been reported to occur between 4±6 months of age (Bogan and Crittenden, 1987;Crittenden and Baines, 1985;Ferro-Luzzi et al, 1978;Heywood et al, 1991;Jenkins et al, 1984;Malcolm, 1970;Thomason et al, 1986), a pattern that is consistent with other developing countries (Waterlow, 1994). The cross-sectional data from the present study is suggestive of a similar marked decline in growth after 6 months of age.…”

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“…A number of factors such as altitude, relief, seasonality, population density, land use patterns, nutrition, and disease influence patterns of growth in Papua New Guinea (Heywood, 1983;Mueller and Smith, 1999;Mueller et al, 2001;Norgan, 1992). Changes in nutritional status have (McNair and Learoyd, 1989), access to services, and/or participation in a cash economy (Bogan and Crittenden, 1987;Crittenden and Baines, 1985). Of these factors, income earning or participation in a cash economy at the household (Forsyth, 1982;Tracer et al, 1998), community (Bogan and Crittenden, 1987), and population levels (Shack et al, 1990a) have had a significant impact on the nutritional status of children in Papua New Guinea.…”

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Nutritional status of children from Papua New Guinea: Associations with socioeconomic factors

King

Mascie‐Taylor

2002

American J Hum Biol

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Growth faltering has been well documented in children from Papua New Guinea, although there is evidence that broad processes of modernization, such as cash cropping, have resulted in increased body size. It is not clear, however, what household socioeconomic factors may be associated with larger body size in populations undergoing early stages of modernization. This cross-sectional study examined the nutritional status of children between birth and 5 years of age living near Kanabea, Papua New Guinea, a relatively remote outpost in the highland fringe experiencing a limited cash economy. Weight and height were measured on 260 children from 190 households. The mean z-scores of -2.26 +/- 1.50 (SD) for height-for-age, -2.43 +/- 1.25 for weight-for-age, and -1.34 +/- 1.49 for weight-for-height are suggestive of both acute and chronic malnutrition. Using a cut-off value of < or = -2SD, 68.8% of the children were stunted and/or wasted. These values are similar to those from a 1992-93 survey in the district, revealing that malnutrition remains a problem in the area. In this largely traditional horticultural group, educated mothers and mothers who spoke pidgin and/or English in addition to the local language had children with better z-scores.

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Nutritional status of children from Papua New Guinea: Associations with socioeconomic factors

King

Mascie‐Taylor

2002

American J Hum Biol

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“…Comparison of a regional anthropometric survey of the Nembi Plateau in Southern Highlands in 1980 with an earlier survey in 1978 showed minor improvement in nutrition status in the central and northern areas of the plateau (with more economic opportunity and better access), but not in the south, where the settlement was below 1,600 m and nutrition status poorer [100]. A subsequent anthropometric survey of the whole of Southern Highlands in 1983 [101] showed a positive relationship between the nutrition status (weight for age and weight for length, but not length for age) of children less than five years old and an index of cash-earning activity (assessed by village; small-holder coffee was one of the most important cash sources).…”

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Nutritional Effects of Export-Crop Production in Papua New Guinea: A Review of the Evidence

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1994

Food Nutr Bull

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The effects of cash cropping on nutrition in Papua New Guinea are reviewed. The interpretation of the available evidence is complicated by the introduction of cash cropping simultaneously with services such as health and education of the rural population. However, there is indication that the growth of children improved over the period in which cash cropping increased, particularly in the highlands, where, as a result of the later introduction of cash crops, more baseline data are available. There is no reason to believe that the same effect did not occur in the lowlands, where the infant mortality rate fell progressively over the same period. There is also evidence of an increase in the height and weight of adults, as well as an increase in the prevalence of degenerative diseases. Programmes need to be developed that retain the important benefits of child health and at the same time arrest the increasing prevalence of degenerative diseases in adults.

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“…The East Mianmin birthweights are within the expected range for a highlands population, albeit the lower part of it (cf. Nembi plateau, Southern Highlands Province: Crittenden and Baines 1985). The West Mianmin birthweights, on the other hand, are surprisingly high for a lowland population under stress from malaria, and probably from anaemia and undernutrition (cf.…”

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Longitudinal weight growth patterns in the highland fringes of West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea: a comparison of three groups

Attenborough

Porteous

Gardner

1995

Annals of Human Biology

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Longitudinal weight growth data from three groups in West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, are compared. A form of analysis based on the four-parameter Jenss curve is adopted, to allow intelligible comparisons of parameter means despite irregular weighing schedules for individual children. Although many weighing records include notes of a child's ill-health (e.g. malaria), omission of these weighings does not have a large effect on the results. Some significant sex differences were found, but do not appear to be importantly confounded with group differences. Of the three groups compared, the East Mianmin live at moderate altitude, the Imnai live at low altitude, and the West Mianmin are a migrant group from moderate to low altitude. In principle the analysis could have shown the groups to be differentiated by altitude of current residence (suggesting the influence of environmental factors), by altitude of ancestral residence (suggesting the influence of genetic and/or cultural factors) or by some interaction of causal factors. Findings on most parameters suggest interaction. Neither moderate nor low-altitude conditions appear consistently more favourable to rapid growth; it is suggested that the advantage of a more favourable disease environment at moderate altitude may be at least partially offset by a nutritional disadvantage. The effect of environmental conditions may also be non-uniform, especially for young infants, since infants of the migrant group, the West Mianmin, are born heaviest but grow more slowly in the early months than infants of either non-migrant group.

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Assessments of the nutritional status of children on the Nembi plateau in 1978 and 1980

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Nutritional status of children from Papua New Guinea: Associations with socioeconomic factors

Nutritional status of children from Papua New Guinea: Associations with socioeconomic factors

Nutritional Effects of Export-Crop Production in Papua New Guinea: A Review of the Evidence

Longitudinal weight growth patterns in the highland fringes of West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea: a comparison of three groups

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