Households with Undernourished Children and Overweight Mothers: Is This a Concern for Haiti?
- Out of 203 sampled households, 14% had a malnourished child under ten and an overweight mother.
- Overweight mother households were 32% of the sample, malnourished mother and child households 7% and malnourished child only households 36%.
- Households with an overweight mother had better socio-economic status, whatever the nutritional status of the child.
- In very poor urban settings, the coexistence of child malnutrition and maternal overweight may mainly be observed in relatively better-off households.
Darline Raphaël, Hélène Delisle and Colette Vilgrain published this study in Ecology of Food and Nutrition, volume 44, issue 2 (2005). It examines the coexistence of child malnutrition and adult overweight, which typifies rapid nutrition transition and is likely widespread in poor urban populations. The study assessed the anthropometric profile and socio-economic characteristics of 203 households randomly sampled in a shantytown in Port-au-Prince.
Of these, 14% had a malnourished child under ten and an overweight mother. Households with an overweight mother were 32% of the sample and had better socio-economic status than households with malnourished mothers and children (7%) or malnourished children only (36%). The authors conclude that in very poor urban settings the coexistence of child malnutrition and maternal overweight may be observed mainly in relatively better-off households.
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Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 2005, Households with Undernourished Children and Overweight Mothers: Is This a Concern for Haiti?, https://doi.org/10.1080/03670240590923550
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