Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries
Sally Grantham-McGregor,Yin Bun Cheung,Santiago Cueto,Paul Glewwe,Linda Richter,Barbara J. Strupp +5 more
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Two factors with available worldwide data—the prevalence of early childhood stunting and the number of people living in absolute poverty—are identified as indicators of poor development and show that both indicators are closely associated with poor cognitive and educational performance in children.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2007-01-06 and is currently open access. It has received 2942 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Child poverty & Poverty.read more
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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health
TL;DR: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) as mentioned in this paper was created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it.
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Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences
Robert E. Black,Lindsay H. Allen,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Laura E. Caulfield,Mercedes de Onis,Majid Ezzati,Colin Mathers,Juan A Rivera +7 more
TL;DR: The high mortality and disease burden resulting from these nutrition-related factors make a compelling case for the urgent implementation of interventions to reduce their occurrence or ameliorate their consequences.
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Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries
Robert E. Black,Cesar G. Victora,Susan P. Walker,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Parul Christian,Mercedes de Onis,Majid Ezzati,Sally Grantham-McGregor,Sally Grantham-McGregor,Joanne Katz,Reynaldo Martorell,Ricardo Uauy +11 more
TL;DR: It is estimated that undernutrition in the aggregate--including fetal growth restriction, stunting, wasting, and deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc along with suboptimum breastfeeding--is a cause of 3·1 million child deaths annually or 45% of all child deaths in 2011.
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Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital.
Cesar G. Victora,Linda S. Adair,Caroline H.D. Fall,Pedro C. Hallal,Reynaldo Martorell,Linda Richter,Harshpal Singh Sachdev +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that damage suffered in early life leads to permanent impairment, and might also affect future generations, as undernutrition is associated with lower human capital and its prevention will probably bring about important health, educational, and economic benefits.
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No health without mental health.
Martin Prince,Vikram Patel,Shekhar Saxena,Mario Maj,Joanna Maselko,Michael R. Phillips,Atif Rahman +6 more
TL;DR: Mental health affects progress towards the achievement of several Millennium Development Goals, such as promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, and reversal of the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data or Tears: With an Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India
TL;DR: This work estimates the relationship between household wealth and children’s school enrollment in India by constructing a linear index from asset ownership indicators, using principal-components analysis to derive weights, and shows that this index is robust to the assets included, and produces internally coherent results.
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Estimating Wealth Effects Without Expenditure Data—Or Tears: An Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India
Deon Filmer,Lant Pritchett +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a method for estimating the effect of household economic status on educational outcomes without direct survey information on income or expenditures is proposed and defended, which uses an index based on household asset ownership indicators.
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Socioeconomic status and child development.
TL;DR: A variety of mechanisms linking SES to child well-being have been proposed, with most involving differences in access to material and social resources or reactions to stress-inducing conditions by both the children themselves and their parents.
WHO child growth standards: length/height-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length, weight-for-height and body mass index-for-age - Methods and development
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The Effects of Poverty on Children.
TL;DR: Research supports the conclusion that family income has selective but, in some instances, quite substantial effects on child and adolescent well-being and suggests that interventions during early childhood may be most important in reducing poverty's impact on children.