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Using extended concentration and achievement indices to study socioeconomic inequality in chronic childhood malnutrition : the case of Nigeria
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Uthman, Olalekan A. (2009) Using extended concentration and achievement indices to study socioeconomic inequality in chronic childhood malnutrition : the case of Nigeria. International Journal for Equity in Health, 8 . pp. 1-8. 22. doi:10.1186/1475-9276-8-22 ISSN 1475-9276.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-8-22
Abstract
Objectives:
To assess and quantify the magnitude of inequalities in under-five child malnutrition, particularly those ascribable to socio-economic status
Methods:
Data on 4187 under-five children were derived from the Nigeria 2003 Demographic and Health Survey. Household asset index was used as the main indicator of socio-economic status. Socio-economic inequality in chronic childhood malnutrition was measured using the "extended" illness concentration and achievement indices.
Results:
There are considerable pro-rich inequalities in the distribution of stunting. South-east and south-west regions had low average levels of childhood malnutrition, but the inequalities between the poor and the better-off were very large. By contrast, North-east and North-west had fairly small gaps between the poor and the better-off on childhood malnutrition, but the average values of the childhood malnutrition was extremely high.
Conclusion:
There are significant differences in under-five child malnutrition that favour the better-off of society as a whole and all geopolitical regions. Like other studies have reported, reliance on global averages alone can be misleading. Thus there is a need for evaluating policies not only in terms of improvements in averages, but also improvements in distribution.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Malnutrition in children -- Nigeria | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal for Equity in Health | ||||||||
Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1475-9276 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 5 June 2009 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 8 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-8 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 22 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1186/1475-9276-8-22 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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