Relationship between health services, socioeconomic variables and inadequate weight gain among Brazilian children.
Bull World Health Organ
; 77(11): 895-905, 1999.
Article
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| ID: mdl-10612885
ABSTRACT
PIP: This article assesses the relationship between health services, socioeconomic variables, and inadequate weight gain among Brazilian children. The study used ecological analysis to assess the relative contributions of these variables to variations in the prevalence of inadequate weight gain among infants and young children in 140 municipalities in the State of Caera, northeast Brazil. The assessment of the total effect of selected variables involved fitting three unique sets of multivariate linear regression models to the prevalence of inadequate weight gain among infants and children. Findings showed several significant predictors of the prevalence of inadequate weight gains. These include participation in growth monitoring and a degree of urbanization, which together account for 38.3% of the variation, and female illiteracy rate (9.7% of the variation). Overall, these factors explain 25.6% of the variation in child growth. In conclusion, the study suggests that efforts to reduce the average municipality-specific female illiteracy rate, in combination with participation in growth monitoring may be effective in reducing municipality-level prevalence of inadequate weight gain among infants and children in Caera.
Palavras-chave
Age Factors; Americas; Biology; Body Weight; Brazil; Child Development; Child Health; Delivery Of Health Care; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Growth; Health; Health Services; Illiterates--women; Infant; Latin America; Physiology; Population; Population Characteristics; Research Report; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; South America; Women; Youth
Texto completo:
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtornos da Nutrição Infantil
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Aumento de Peso
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Áreas de Pobreza
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Serviços de Saúde da Criança
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Serviços Urbanos de Saúde
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Transtornos do Crescimento
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Patient_preference
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Newborn
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Bull World Health Organ
Ano de publicação:
1999
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos
País de publicação:
Suíça