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Kinyoki, Damaris K., Moloney, Grainne M., Uthman, Olalekan A., Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin, Odundo, Elijah O., Noor, Abdisalan M. and Berkley, James A. (2017) Conflict in Somalia : impact on child undernutrition. BMJ Global Health, 2 (2). e000262. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000262
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000262
Abstract
In Somalia, protracted conflict and drought have caused population displacement and livelihood destruction. There is also widespread childhood undernutrition. We aimed to determine the independent effects of conflict on wasting and stunting among children aged 6-59 months nationwide in Somalia.Data were from household surveys during 2007-2010, including 73 778 children in 1066 clusters, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project database and remote sensing. We used Bayesian hierarchical spatial-temporal regression to examine the effects of conflict on wasting and stunting. Models included individual, household and environmental covariates and recent (<3 months) or longer term (3-12 months) conflict events.15 355 (21%) and 22 739 (31%) observations were from wasted and stunted children, respectively. The conflict was associated with undernutrition independently of the individual, household and environmental factors, and its inclusion improved model performance. Recent conflict was associated with wasting (OR 1.37, 95% credible interval (CrI): (1.33, 1.42) and attributable fraction (AF) 7.6%)) and stunting (OR 1.21, 95% CrI (1.15, 1.28), AF 6.9%). Longer term conflict had greater effects on wasting (OR 1.76, 95% CrI (1.71, 1.81), AF 6.0%) and stunting (OR 1.88, 95% CrI = (1.83, 1.94), AF 7.4%). After controlling for conflict, the harmful effect of internal displacement and protective effects of rainfall and vegetation cover on undernutrition were enhanced.Conflict and internal displacement have large effects on undernutrition in ways not fully captured by simply measuring individual, household and environmental factors or drought.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services | |||||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School | |||||||||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Malnutrition in children -- Somália, Somalia -- History -- 1991- | |||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | BMJ Global Health | |||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2059-7908 | |||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 29 May 2017 | |||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Number: | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Article Number: | e000262 | |||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000262 | |||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | ** From Europe PMC via Jisc Publications Router. ** Licence for this article: cc by | |||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||||||||
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