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Closing the rural-urban gap in child malnutrition: evidence from Paraguay, 1997-2012

Between 1997 and 2012, Paraguay achieved not only remarkable improvements in child nutrition, but also a surprising elimination of the rural-urban differential in child height-for-age Z score (HAZ) and stunting. Our decomposition analysis, applied to four rounds of Paraguayan National Household Surv...

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Main Author: Ervin, Paul Alan (author)
Other Authors: Bubak, Vit (author)
Format: article
Language:English
Published: 2019
Subjects:
7. Salud
NUTRITION POLICY
HEIGHT-FOR-AGE
STUNTING
RURAL-URBAN DISPARITIES
CHILD NUTRITION
NUTRICION
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14066/3635
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.11.001
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Summary:Between 1997 and 2012, Paraguay achieved not only remarkable improvements in child nutrition, but also a surprising elimination of the rural-urban differential in child height-for-age Z score (HAZ) and stunting. Our decomposition analysis, applied to four rounds of Paraguayan National Household Surveys, allows us to directly infer not only the contributions of changes in determinants of child nutritional status to the improvements in child nutritional status in rural and urban areas, but also their contribution to closing the rural-urban gap.

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