The relationship of household assets and amenities with child health outcomes: An exploratory cross-sectional study in India 2015-2016.

ABSTRACT: Healthy development of children in India is far from ensured. Proximate determinants of poor child health outcomes are infectious diseases and undernutrition, which are linked to socioeconomic status. In low- and middle-income countries, researchers rely on wealth indices, constructed from information on households' asset ownership and amenities, to study socioeconomic disparities in child health. Some of these wealth index items can, however, directly affect the proximate determinants of child health. This paper explores the independent association of each item used to construct the Demographic and Health Surveys' wealth index with diverse child health outcomes. This cross-sectional study used nationally representative sample of 245,866 children, age 0-59 months, from the Indian National

SUBMITTER: Karlsson O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6881648 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature