Children's height and weight in rural and urban populations in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic analysis of population-representative data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urban living affects children's nutrition and growth, which are determinants of their survival, cognitive development, and lifelong health. Little is known about urban-rural differences in children's height and weight, and how these differences have changed over time. We aimed to investigate trends in children's height and weight in rural and urban settings in low-income and middle-income countries, and to assess changes in the urban-rural differentials in height and weight over time.

Methods

We used comprehensive population-based data and a Bayesian hierarchical mixture model to estimate trends in children's height-for-age and weight-for-age Z scores by rural and urban place of residence, and changes in urban-rural differentials in height and weight Z scores, for

SUBMITTER: Paciorek CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4547325 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature