Trends of child undernutrition in rural Ecuadorian communities with differential access to roads, 2004–2013

Determinants of child malnutrition in rural and urban Ecuadorian highlands.

OBJECTIVE To identify and compare the sociodemographic determinants of stunting, wasting and overweight among infants of urban and rural areas in the Ecuadorian highlands. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Nabon (rural) and Cuenca (urban) cantons, Azuay Province, Ecuador. SUBJECTS A total of 703 children aged 0-24 months and their caregivers (227 rural and 476 urban) recruited during ...

Child Undernutrition in India

Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi

Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might increase work by children. It is foun...

Flood-Exposure is Associated with Higher Prevalence of Child Undernutrition in Rural Eastern India.

BACKGROUND Child undernutrition and flooding are highly prevalent public health issues in Asia, yet epidemiological studies investigating this association are lacking. METHODS To investigate to what extent floods exacerbate poor nutritional status in children and identify most vulnerable groups, we conducted a population-based survey of children aged 6-59 months inhabiting flooded and non-flo...

Rural Roads

INTRODUCTION Rural Road connectivity is a key component of rural development, since it promotes access to economic and social services, thereby generating increased agricultural productivity, non-agriculture employment as well as non-agricultural productivity, which in turn expands rural growth opportunities and real income through which poverty can be reduced. A study (Fan et al. 1999) carried...