Associations Between Nutritional Indicators Using Geoadditive Latent Variable Models with Application to Child Malnutrition in Nigeria
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Childhood undernutrition is amongst the most serious health issues facing developing countries. It is an intrinsic indicator of well-being, but it is also associated with morbidity, mortality, impaired childhood development, and reduced labor productivity (Svedberg 1996; UNICEF 1998; Sen 1999) To assess nutritional status, the 2003 DHS obtained measurements of height and weight for all children below five years of age.(Survey 2003) Researchers distinguish between three types of malnutrition: wasting or insufficient weight for height indicating acute malnutrition; stunting or insufficient height for age indicating chronic malnutrition; and underweight or insufficient weight for age which could be a result of both stunting and wasting. These three anthropometric variables are measured through z-scores for wasting, stunting and underweight, defined by
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