Climate change, social vulnerability and child nutrition in South Asia.

ABSTRACT: Despite recent advancements in global population well-being and food security, climate change threatens to undermine child nutritional health, particularly for marginalized populations in tropical low- and middle-income countries. South Asia is at particular risk for climate-driven undernutrition due to a combination of historical weather exposures, existing nutritional deficits, and a lack of sanitation access. Previous studies have established that precipitation extremes increase rates of undernutrition in this region, but the existing literature lacks adequate consideration of temperature anomalies, mediating social factors, and the developmentally-relevant timing of exposure. We combine high-resolution temperature and precipitation data with large-sample survey data on household demogr

SUBMITTER: McMahon K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8653856 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature