Elucidating the Macroeconomic Determinants of Undernourishment in South Asian Countries: Building the Framework for Action

Aziz, Noshaba; He, Jun; Raza, Ali; Sui, Hongguang; Wang, Yue

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.696789

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“…Thus, there was a need to close the urban-rural gap and create interventions that were specifically aimed at rural residents. In rural or underdeveloped areas, the government should step up its effort to promote diet-related health education that fosters behavioral change of the poor toward healthy diets [25] These actions will undoubtedly provide concrete ways to achieve sustainable food security and nourishment, especially for the underprivileged [56].…”

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Differences in Awareness of Chinese Dietary Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwest China

Jiang¹,

Wen²,

Li³

et al. 2023

Int J Public Health

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Objectives: This study aimed to compare the awareness of Chinese dietary guidelines (CDGs, 2016) between rural and urban areas in Southwest China and identify the factors that affect CDGs (2016) awareness.Methods: This cross-sectional survey included 8,320 individuals aged 18–75 years from Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, China. Convenience sampling method was adopted to select the survey subjects and face-to-face surveys in each region were conducted to collect data. Descriptive statistics and generalized linear model were used to evaluate differences in awareness of CDGs among urban and rural residents and its influencing factors.Results: Overall CDGs awareness was low in urban and rural areas, although the awareness rate was higher in the former than in the latter (29.1% vs. 19.9%, respectively). Region, education level, Body Mass Index (BMI), gender, income, and age are the influencing factors of CDGs awareness. Urban participants were likely to acquire relevant knowledge from social media, books/magazines, family/friends, and experts. However, rural participants were likely to acquire relevant knowledge from food sales staff (p < 0.05).Conclusion: Rural residents are less aware of CDGs than their urban counterparts in Southwest China. Future dietary education should adopt different strategies for different populations, with considerable focus on rural residents.

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Differences in Awareness of Chinese Dietary Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwest China

Jiang¹,

Wen²,

Li³

et al. 2023

Int J Public Health

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“…The results are analogous to the recent studies that unveiled that rural women in developing countries confront cultural barriers ( 42 , 63 – 65 ). The study proposes that government should promote and equalize essential health and public services primarily for the marginalized and deprived population following the study of Aziz et al ( 66 , 67 ). At the same time, rural migrants seeking medical treatment locally substantially affect their awareness of using public health services in the inflow place.…”

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Dialect culture and the utilization of public health service by rural migrants: Insights from China

Zhao

Aziz

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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The right to health is a fundamental human right for human beings to live in dignity. Everyone has the right to enjoy the fair and accessible highest standard of health by utilizing public health services. However, access to essential public health services also highly depends on the dialect culture. It is believed that the dialect culture also influences the efficiency of public health policies. To explore the phenomenon empirically, the current study utilized data sourced from geographical distribution information of Chinese dialects and the China Migrants Dynamic Survey for 2017. The study employed the Probit, IVprobit, and Eprobit models to estimate the impact of dialect culture on migrants' use of public health services. The findings revealed that the dialect culture significantly hinders the migrants' utilization of public health services. Further, by employing heterogeneity analysis, the findings revealed that the results are more pronounced in migrants, born after 1980, and are female with low educational background and also those migrants having local medical experiences and moving toward non-provincial cities. Finally to explore the mechanism of dialect culture influencing migrants' public health service, the study employed mediation analysis and KHB Method. The findings revealed that information transmission, health habits, social capital, and cultural identity are the potential pathways influencing the migrants' use of public health services. The findings conclude that rural-to-urban migrants' access to public health services is influenced by their cultural adaptation. Hence, the study proposes that the government should amend the policy inefficiency concerns caused by cultural differences and strengthen the regional cultural exchanges to build trust.

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“…Economic growth is indispensable but not enough factors required combating undernourishment. The reason could be the substantial disparity in the share of poor people in the aggregate economic growth (Aziz et al 2021). Similarly the actual relationship between health spending and child health is still unclear, particularly at the macro level as most of the researchers found an insigni cant association between health expenditure and under-ve malnutrition.…”

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Environmental and Socio-economic drivers of child anthropometric failures in selected countries of South Asia

SABEEN

Anwar

2022

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The pervasiveness of malnutrition among children under five is unacceptably high in South Asia. Assessment of overall burden of malnutrition with summation of Gomez and Waterlow’s three class divisions in Svedberg formulated composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) and Nandy’s revised CIAF have overlooked the incidence of overnutrition and their possible connections with other subgroups. This study proposes a new scheme; an extended version of CIAF as developed by Kuiti & Bose (2018), to accurately estimates the prevalence of anthropometric failures. The study also examines the effects of socio-economic and environmental variables on child malnutrition in selected South Asian countries include Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. For empirical analysis, panel cointegration technique is employed by using data for the period of 1990 to 2018. All the variables are stationary at first difference. Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) method is applied to explore the parameter estimates. The results showed that political stability, prevalence of undernourishment, anemia in children, mother’s education, household size, dependency ratio, air pollution and unimproved sanitation significantly correlated with childhood undernutrition. The findings also testified long-run cointegrating relationship among the variables.

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Elucidating the Macroeconomic Determinants of Undernourishment in South Asian Countries: Building the Framework for Action

Cited by 11 publications

References 90 publications

Differences in Awareness of Chinese Dietary Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwest China

Differences in Awareness of Chinese Dietary Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwest China

Dialect culture and the utilization of public health service by rural migrants: Insights from China

Environmental and Socio-economic drivers of child anthropometric failures in selected countries of South Asia

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