"Measuring the Environmental Context of Child Growth in Burkina Faso".

ABSTRACT: Child growth failure, as indicated by low height-for-age z-scores (HAZ), is an important metric of health, social inequality, and food insecurity. Understanding the environmental pathways to this outcome can provide insight into how to prevent it. While other studies have examined the environmental determinants of HAZ, there is no agreed upon best-practices approach to measure the environmental context of this outcome. From this literature, we derive a large set of potential environmental predictors and specifications including temperature and precipitation levels, anomalies, and counts as well as vegetation anomalies and trends, which we include using linear, nonlinear, and interactive specifications. We compare these measures and specifications using four rounds of DHS survey data from B

SUBMITTER: Rojas AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10237046 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature