Poor and non-poor gap in under-five child nutrition: a case from Nepal using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) have improved health indicators in the past decades, however, there is a differential in outcomes between socioeconomic groups. Systematic analysis of drivers of child nutrition gap between non-poor and poor groups has a policy relevance in Nepal and other countries to make progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). The objective of this paper was to estimate the mean height-for-age z scores (HAZ) gap between under-five children belonging to non-poor and poor groups, divide the gap into components (endowments, coefficients and interaction), and identify the factors that contributed most to each of the component.

Methods

Information about 6277 under-five children was extracted from the most recent nationally rep

SUBMITTER: Bhusal UP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9559871 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature