Early life migration and undernutrition among circular migrant children: An observational study in the brick kilns of Bihar, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

India holds the world's largest burden of chronic and acute child undernutrition. Poverty and systemic inequities are basic causes of undernutrition that also drive households to engage in circular migration for livelihood. Short-term, temporary movement of the whole family, including young children, is common; yet, the nutritional implications of recurrent movements beginning in early life has not been studied. We sought to estimate the association of repeat and early life migration with stunting and wasting outcomes among circular migrant children under three.

Methods

Using a stratified cluster design, we conducted two waves of primary data collection among 2564 randomly selected circular migrant children under three years of age temporarily residing across 1156

SUBMITTER: Roshania RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8818295 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature