Exploring the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), early adequate feeding and access to health care on urban-rural disparities of child malnutrition in China.

ABSTRACT: To explore the effects of UNICEF-suggested modifiable factors, that is, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), early adequate feeding and health care on child malnutrition, and to examine the extent to which each factor contributes to urban-rural disparities of child malnutrition in China. Pooling two waves of regionally representative survey data from Jilin, China, in 2013 and 2018, we report on urban-rural relative risks (RRs) in the prevalence of child stunting, wasting and overweight. We employ Poisson regression to examine the effects of urban-rural setting and the three modifiable factors on the prevalence of each malnutrition outcome, that is, stunting, wasting and overweight. We perform mediation analyses to estimate the extent to which each modifiable factor could explain the urban

SUBMITTER: Lin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10483939 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature