Decomposing inequality of opportunity in child health in Tanzania: The role of access to water and sanitation.

ABSTRACT: Poor child nutrition is a major public health challenge in Tanzania. Large between and within regional nutritional inequalities exist in rural and urban areas. We looked at how locational circumstances hinder children from having an equal opportunity for good nutrition. We used the 2008/09 Living Standards Measurement Study data for Tanzania to identify the part played by water and sanitation in rural and urban inequality of opportunity in child nutrition. We used the dissimilarity index and the Shapley decomposition technique to quantify and decompose inequality of opportunity in nutrition. We find that 16% of the circumstance-driven inequality of opportunity needs to be redistributed for equality of opportunity to prevail. We find that in rural areas, about 42% of the inequality of oppor

SUBMITTER: Mkupete MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9805148 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature