Improving Nutritional Status through Behavioral Change : Lessons from Madagascar

This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a combination of double-difference and weighting estimators in a longitudinal survey to address the purposive placement of participating communities and estimate the effect of the availability of the program at the community level on nutritional outcomes. The authors find that the program helped 0-5 year old children in the participating communities to bridge the gap in weight for age z-scores and the incidence of underweight. The program also had significant effects in protecting long-term nutritional outcomes (height for age z-scores and incidence of stunting) against an underlying negative trend in the absence of the program. Importantly, the effect of the program exhibits substantial heterogeneity: gains in nutritional outcomes are larger for more educated mothers and for villages with better infrastructure. The program enables the analysis to isolate responsiveness to information provision and disentangle the effect of knowledge in the education effect on nutritional outcomes. The results are suggestive of important complementarities among child care, maternal education, and community infrastructure..

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E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2012

Erschienen:

Washington, DC: World Bank ; 2012

Reihe:

Policy Research Working Paper - 4424

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Galasso, Emanuela [VerfasserIn]
Umapathi, Nithin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

APPLIED NUTRITION
BEHAVIOR CHANGE
BEHAVIORAL CHANGES
BREASTFEEDING
CENTRAL AMERICA
CHILD CARE
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
CHILD FEEDING
CHILD FEEDING PRACTICES
CHILD GROWTH
CHILD HEALTH
CHILD NUTRITION
CHILD-CARE
CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION
COMMUNES
COMMUNITIES
COMMUNITY NUTRITION WORKERS
COMPLEMENTARY FOOD
COOKING
DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS
DESCRIPTION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DIARRHEA
DIET
DISEASES
DISSEMINATION
DISTRICTS
EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT
EARLY CHILDHOOD
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC RESOURCES
EDUCATED MOTHERS
FEMALE
FEMALES
FOOD INTAKE
FOOD SECURITY
GENDER
GROWTH MONITORING
GROWTH PROMOTION
GROWTH RETARDATION
HEALTH OUTCOMES
HEALTH PRODUCTION
HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTH STATUS
HOME VISITS
HOSPITAL
HOSPITALS
HOUSEHOLDS
HOUSING
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HYGIENE
HYGIENE PRACTICES
ILLNESS
ILLNESSES
INFANT
INTERVENTION
LABOR MARKET
LACTATING MOTHERS
LARGE CITIES
LESS EDUCATED MOTHERS
LIVING CONDITIONS
LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE
LOW BIRTH WEIGHT
MALNUTRITION
MALNUTRITION RATES
MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION
MODERATE MALNUTRITION
MORTALITY
MORTALITY RATES
MOTHER
NUTRIENTS
NUTRITION
NUTRITION EDUCATION
NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS
NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE
NUTRITION POLICY
NUTRITION PROGRAMS
NUTRITION PROJECTS
NUTRITION STATUS
NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF INFANTS
OCCUPATION
OLD CHILDREN
PEDIATRICS
PERSONAL COMMUNICATION
PNC
POLICY RESEARCH
POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
POPULATION CENSUS
POPULATION SIZE
PREGNANCY
PREGNANT WOMAN
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRODUCTIVITY
PROGRESS
PROTEIN
PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION
PROVISION OF INFORMATION
PUBLIC HEALTH
PUBLIC SERVICES
QUALITY SERVICES
RADIO
RESPECT
RURAL AREAS
SAFE WATER
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SECONDARY SCHOOL
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SERVICE DELIVERY
SEVERE MALNUTRITION
SOCIAL PROGRAMS
SPILLOVER
STAGES OF LIFE
STUNTING
TETANUS
TRADITIONAL PRACTICES
UNDERNUTRITION
URBAN AREAS
URBAN CENTER
URBAN POPULATIONS
VILLAGE LEVEL
VILLAGES
VITAMIN
VITAMIN A
VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION
VULNERABILITY
WASTING
WOMAN
WORKERS
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
YOUNG AGES
YOUNG CHILD
YOUNG CHILDREN

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Weitere IDs:

10986/7607

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

797537171