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Caries Experience among Children with History of Neonatal Stunting
Objective Children with neonatal growth retardation (defined as birth length
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Maternal Complications during Pregnancy and Risk Factors for Stunting
BACKGROUND: Stunting can be prevented by early detection when the mother is pregnant. Early detection can be carried out by looking for risk factors of stunting during pregnancy so that interventions can be early detected. This study aims to assess complications during pregnancy (disease and…
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Determinants of Stunting among Children under Five in Pakistan
Introduction: Child stunting remains a public health concern. It is characterized as poor cognitive and physical development in children due to inadequate nutrition during the first 1000 days of life. Across south Asia, Pakistan has the second-highest prevalence of stunting. This study assessed the…
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Stunting: methodological considerations for improved study design and reporting
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Association between maternal employment and child stunting in Kenya
…to investigate the effect of maternal employment and occupation on child stunting in Kenya and how these effects vary by socioeconomic status. METHODS: Data analysis was done at three levels. First, univariate analysis was done on the variables. Second, bivariate analysis was used to examine…
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Monitoring the progress and impact of a multicountry, interdisciplinary research project on childhood stunting: the UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub MEL protocol
…This article describes the MEL protocol of the UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub (AASH). METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The AASH conducts interdisciplinary research into childhood stunting in India, Indonesia and Senegal across 23 distinct work packages. Project-specific MEL framework and methods will…
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Analysis of Determinants of Stunting and Identifications of Stunting Risk Profiles Among Under 2-Year-Old Children in Ethiopia. A Latent Class Analysis
BACKGROUND: Childhood stunting has a long-term impact on cognitive development and overall well-being. Understanding varying stunting profiles is crucial for targeted interventions and effective policy-making. Therefore, our study aimed to identify the determinants and stunting risk profiles among…
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Sociocultural environmental factors and childhood stunting: qualitative studies – a protocol for the Shared Values theme of the UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub
INTRODUCTION: Stunting is a significant and growing global problem that is resisting scientific attempts to understand it in terms of direct nutrition-related determinants. In recent years, research included more complex, indirect and multifactorial determinants and expanded to include…
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Understanding the role of household hygiene practices and foodborne disease risks in child stunting: a UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub protocol paper
INTRODUCTION: Environmental hygiene and food safety are important determinants of child stunting. This research aims to explore the relationship between child stunting and household hygiene practices and behaviours, including the availability of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities; the…
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Simultaneous Wasting and Stunting (WaSt), Wasting and Anemia (WaAn) and Wasting, Stunting and Anemia (WaStAn) Among Children 6–59 Months in Karamoja, Uganda
Child malnutrition remains a critical public health challenge in Karamoja, Uganda. This study examined the prevalence and determinants of simultaneous wasting, stunting, and anemia (WaStAn) among children aged 6–59 months using secondary data from the 2022 Food Security and Nutrition Assessment…
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Does Childhood Diarrhea Influence Cognition Beyond the Diarrhea-Stunting Pathway?
…We did not demonstrate an association between diarrhea and cognition with stunting included in the model. The links between diarrhea, stunting, and cognition provide additional rationale for accelerating interventions to reduce diarrhea.
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Critical windows for nutritional interventions against stunting(1)(2)(3)
…period −9 to 24 mo as a window of opportunity for interventions against stunting and has garnered considerable political backing for investment targeted at the first 1000 d. These important initiatives should not be undermined, but the objective of this study was to counteract the growing…
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Determinants of Stunting in School-Aged Children of Tehran, Iran
BACKGROUND: Limited data are available indicating associates of stunting among Iranian children. This study was conducted to investigate determinants of stunting in first grade primary school children of Tehran in 2007. METHOD: In this case-control study, 3147 school children were selected by…
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Predictors of Stunting among School-Age Children in Northwestern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Stunting is a major public health problem in most developing countries, and it increases the risk of illness and death throughout childhood. It is also a major public health problem in Ethiopia. Most of the few studies done in Ethiopia were done in schools. However, the prevalence of…
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Community-Based Health Financing and Child Stunting in Rural Rwanda
Objectives. We analyzed the likelihood of rural children (aged 6–24 months) being stunted according to whether they were enrolled in Mutuelles, a community-based health-financing program providing health insurance to rural populations and granting them access to health care, including nutrition…
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Child Stunting is Associated with Low Circulating Essential Amino Acids
BACKGROUND: Stunting affects about one-quarter of children under five worldwide. The pathogenesis of stunting is poorly understood. Nutritional interventions have had only modest effects in reducing stunting. We hypothesized that insufficiency in essential amino acids may be limiting the linear…
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What Explains Cambodia’s Success in Reducing Child Stunting-2000-2014?
…is often cited as a success case having reduced the incidence of child stunting from 51% to 34% over the period 2000 to 2014. To what extent is this success driven by improvements in the underlying determinants of nutrition, such as wealth and education, (“covariate effects”) and to what extent by…
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Reaching the global target to reduce stunting: an investment framework
Childhood stunting, being short for one’s age, has life-long consequences for health, human capital and economic growth. Being stunted in early childhood is associated with slower cognitive development, reduced schooling attainment and adult incomes decreased by 5–53%. The World Health Assembly has…
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Environmental enteric dysfunction pathways and child stunting: A systematic review
…hypothesized relationships, among EED domains and between each domain and stunting, are supported by data from recent studies. METHODOLOGY: A systematic literature search was conducted using PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, and CINAHL between January 1, 2010 and April 20, 2017. Information…
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