Access to food markets, household wealth and child nutrition in rural Cambodia: Findings from nationally representative data.

ABSTRACT: Access to informal fresh food markets plays a vital role in household food security and dietary quality in transitioning rural economies. However, it is not well understood if market access also improves child nutrition and if the improvement applies to all socioeconomic groups. In this secondary research study, we combined a national listing of food markets (n = 503) with a national household survey to examine the associations of market access with diet and height across wealth groups in children aged 6 to 23 months in rural Cambodia. All children under two years of age with dietary data (n = 1537) or anthropometry data (n = 989) were selected from the household survey. Food markets were geocoded using Google Maps or villages' geographical coordinates publicly available in the Open Develo

SUBMITTER: Duong C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10584123 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature