Improving children's nutritional status in Cambodia: Multidimensional poverty and early integrated interventions.
Cambodia
early childhood
multidimensional poverty
nutrition
stunting
Journal
Maternal & child nutrition
ISSN: 1740-8709
Titre abrégé: Matern Child Nutr
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101201025
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2020
10 2020
Historique:
received:
08
06
2018
revised:
14
08
2018
accepted:
23
08
2018
pubmed:
6
7
2020
medline:
29
7
2021
entrez:
5
7
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
One in three Cambodian children under 5 years of age are stunted. This study adopted a multidimensional approach to understand the influence of a series of contextual factors on the nutritional status of Cambodian children. In this study, we use a multidimensional poverty framework to identify a combination of interventions likely to achieve reductions in child stunting, in Cambodia. We used the UNICEF Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis tool and data from the Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey 2014 to assess children's multidimensional poverty across nutrition, health, early childhood development, water, sanitation, and housing dimensions. We found that 80% of children under age five were deprived in at least two poverty dimensions. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that reducing the likelihood of being deprived in three or more poverty dimensions was associated with a significant reduction of the probability of being stunted, after controlling for potential confounders. The combined probability of nondeprivation in nutrition, sanitation, and health dimensions had the largest effect on reducing the probability of stunting. The results of this study highlight the multiple, intersecting needs of children and their associated explanatory factors. Targeted and integrated cross-sectoral policies that reinforce comprehensive early childhood interventions are needed for improving nutritional status as part of a wider set of child poverty reduction measures in Cambodia.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32621576
doi: 10.1111/mcn.12731
pmc: PMC7591312
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e12731Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Maternal and Child Nutrition Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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