Sociodemographic Factors and Childhood Growth: Associations with Environmental Sanitation Phases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early childhood growth trajectories can influence the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood. Improvements in environmental sanitation may affect child development in low-resource settings.

Objective

to examine the associations among socioeconomic factors with nutrition indicators, and trajectories of anthropometric indicators across three epidemiological cohorts that reflect different phases of environmental sanitation implementation.

Methods

A longitudinal study was conducted in Salvador, Brazil, from 1997 to 2013. A total of 1429 children were recruited across three epidemiological cohorts, corresponding to the phases of a sanitation program: pre-intervention (n = 299), intervention (n = 1007), and post-intervention (n = 123). Height-

SUBMITTER: Morejon-Teran Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12840589 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature