Dietary diversity moderates household economic inequalities in the double burden of malnutrition in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Improved food availability and a growing economy in Tanzania may insufficiently decrease pre-existing nutritional deficiencies and simultaneously increase overweight within the same individual, household or population, causing a double burden of malnutrition (DBM). We investigated economic inequalities in DBM at the household level, expressed as a stunted child with a mother with overweight/obesity, and the moderating role of dietary diversity in these inequalities.

Design

We used cross-sectional data from the 2015-2016 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey.

Setting

A nationally representative survey.

Participants

Totally, 2867 children (aged 6-23 months) and their mothers (aged 15-49 years). The mother-child pairs were categorised into two groups ba

SUBMITTER: Chen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374552 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature