Maternal internal migration and child growth and nutritional health in Peru: an analysis of the demographic and health surveys from 1991 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peru has historically experienced high rural-to-urban migration. Despite large reductions in undernutrition, overweight is increasing. Elsewhere, internal migration has been associated with differences in children's growth and nutritional health. We investigated how child growth and nutritional status in Peru varied over time and in association with maternal internal migration.

Methods

Using data from Demographic & Health Surveys from 1991 to 2017, we assessed trends in child growth (height-for-age [HAZ], weight-for-age [WAZ], weight-for-height [WHZ] z scores) and nutritional health (stunting, underweight, overweight) by maternal adult internal migration (urban [UNM] or rural non-migrant [RNM], or urban-urban [UUM], rural-urban [RUM], rural-rural [RRM], or urban-r

SUBMITTER: Rougeaux E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8734138 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature