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Breastfeeding, feeding practices and stunting in indigenous Ecuadorians under 2 years of age
(BioMed Central, 2022)
BACKGROUND: The indigenous child population in Ecuador has a high prevalence of stunting. There is limited evidence of the association between breastfeeding, feeding practices, and stunting in indigenous children. This ...
Substantial reduction in child stunting is differentially associated to geographical and socioeconomic disparities in Misiones Province, Argentina
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2020-07)
Objective: To estimate trends in the prevalence of child stunting in the population of children under 5 years of age covered by public health programmes, between 2009 and 2014 in Misiones, Argentina. Methods: Using Bayesian ...
Drivers of stunting reduction in Peru: A country case study
(Oxford University Press, 2020)
Background: Peru reduced its under-5 child stunting prevalence notably from 31.3% in 2000 to 13.1% in 2016. Objectives: We aimed to study factors and key enablers of child stunting reduction in Peru from 2000–2016. Methods: ...
Rotavirus vaccination and stunting: Secondary Data Analysis from the Peruvian Demographic and Health Survey
(Elsevier, 2020)
Rotavirus infection is the leading cause of acute diarrhea in children and is preventable with a vaccine. Malnutrition increases the risk for the development of enteric and respiratory diseases, but also diarrhea increases ...
Evolución y factores determinantes de la Malnutrición Infantil en Imbabura: Evolution and determining factors of Child Malnutrition in Imbabura
(Universidad Técnica del Norte, 2019)
Factors behind the success story of under-five stunting in Peru: a district ecological multilevel analysis
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Stunting prevalence in children less than 5 years has remained stagnated in Peru from 1992 to 2007, with a rapid reduction thereafter. We aimed to assess the role of different predictors on stunting reduction ...
Maternal internal migration and child growth and nutritional health in Peru: an analysis of the demographic and health surveys from 1991 to 2017
(BioMed Central, 2022)
Background: Peru has historically experienced high rural-to-urban migration. Despite large reductions in undernutrition, overweight is increasing. Elsewhere, internal migration has been associated with differences in ...