Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach
Over the past two decades, many developing countries have made impressive progress in reducing undernutrition. We explore potential explanations of this success by applying consistent statistical methods to multiple rounds of Demographic Health Surveys for Bangladesh, Nepal, Ethiopia, Odisha, Senega...
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| author | Headey, Derek D. Hoddinott, John F. Park, Seollee |
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| description | Over the past two decades, many developing countries have made impressive progress in reducing undernutrition. We explore potential explanations of this success by applying consistent statistical methods to multiple rounds of Demographic Health Surveys for Bangladesh, Nepal, Ethiopia, Odisha, Senegal, and Zambia. We find that changes in household wealth, mother's education and access to antenatal care are the largest drivers of nutritional improvement, except for Zambia where large increases in bednet usage is the single largest factor. Other factors play a smaller role in explaining nutritional improvements with improvements in sanitation only appearing to be important in South Asia. Overall, the results point to the need for multidimensional nutritional strategies involving a broad range of nutrition-sensitive sectors. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1462342025-03-03T19:44:19Z Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach Headey, Derek D. Hoddinott, John F. Park, Seollee education surveys households nutrition developing countries hygiene Over the past two decades, many developing countries have made impressive progress in reducing undernutrition. We explore potential explanations of this success by applying consistent statistical methods to multiple rounds of Demographic Health Surveys for Bangladesh, Nepal, Ethiopia, Odisha, Senegal, and Zambia. We find that changes in household wealth, mother's education and access to antenatal care are the largest drivers of nutritional improvement, except for Zambia where large increases in bednet usage is the single largest factor. Other factors play a smaller role in explaining nutritional improvements with improvements in sanitation only appearing to be important in South Asia. Overall, the results point to the need for multidimensional nutritional strategies involving a broad range of nutrition-sensitive sectors. 2017-06 2024-06-21T09:06:17Z 2024-06-21T09:06:17Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146234 en Open Access Elsevier Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John F.; and Park, Seollee. 2017. Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach. Global Food Security 13(June 2017): 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.02.003 |
| spellingShingle | education surveys households nutrition developing countries hygiene Headey, Derek D. Hoddinott, John F. Park, Seollee Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach |
| title | Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach |
| title_full | Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach |
| title_fullStr | Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach |
| title_short | Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach |
| title_sort | accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories a regression decomposition approach |
| topic | education surveys households nutrition developing countries hygiene |
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