Socioeconomic impacts on Andean adolescents' growth: Variation between households, between communities and over time.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

We evaluated potential socioeconomic contributors to variation in Andean adolescents' growth between households within a peri-urban community undergoing rapid demographic and economic change, between different community types (rural, peri-urban, urban) and over time. Because growth monitoring is widely used for assessing community needs and progress, we compared the prevalences of stunting, underweight, and overweight estimated by three different growth references.

Methods

Anthropometrics of 101 El Alto, Bolivia, adolescents (Alteños), 11.0-14.9 years old in 2003, were compared between households (economic status assessed by parental occupations); to one urban and two rural samples collected in 1983/1998/1977, respectively; and to the WHO growth referen

SUBMITTER: Burris ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9454678 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature