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| Title: | Good Care Practices Can Mitigate the Negative Effects of Poverty and Low Maternal Schooling on Children's Nutritional Status: Evidence from Accra |
| Authors: | Ruel, Marie T. Levin, Carol E. Armar-Klemesu, Margaret Maxwell, Daniel Morris, Saul S. |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | World Development |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Period: | November |
| Pages: | 1993-2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ghana |
| Subjects: | child care child nutrition Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Health and Nutrition Women's Issues urbanization Cultural Roles Women and Their Children Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Sex Roles |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00097-2 |
| Abstract: | This study uses data from a representative survey of households with children three years or younger carried out in 1997 in Accra, Ghana, in order to a) examine the importance of care practices for children's height-for-age Z-scores (HAZ); and b) identify subgroups of children for whom good maternal care practices may be particularly important. Good caregiving practices related to child feeding and use of preventive health services were a strong determinant of children's HAZ, specially among children from the two lower income terciles and children whose mothers had less than secondary schooling. In this population, good care practices could compensate for the negative effects of poverty and low maternal schooling on children's HAZ. Thus, effective targeting of specific education messages to improve child feeding practices and use of preventive health care could have a major impact on reducing childhood malnutrition in Accra. Bibliogr., sum. |
