Rajaram S, Zottarelli Lisa K, Sunil T S
Population Research Center, Dharwad, India.
Matern Child Nutr. 2007 Apr;3(2):129-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2007.00086.x.
The children living in rural areas of India disproportionately suffer from malnutrition compared with their urban counterparts. The present article analyses the individual, household, community and programme factors on nutritional status of children in rural India. Additionally, we consider the random variances at village and state levels after introducing various observed individual-, household- and programme-level characteristics in the model. A multilevel model is conducted using data from the National Family and Health Survey 2. The results show that maternal characteristics, such as socio-economic and behavioural factors, are more influential in determining childhood nutritional status than the prevalence of programme factors. Also, it was found that individual factors show evidence of state- and village-level clustering of malnutrition.
与印度城市地区的儿童相比,农村地区的儿童营养不良问题更为严重。本文分析了影响印度农村地区儿童营养状况的个人、家庭、社区和项目因素。此外,在模型中引入各种观察到的个人、家庭和项目层面的特征后,我们考虑了村庄和邦层面的随机差异。使用来自《全国家庭与健康调查2》的数据进行了多层次模型分析。结果表明,母亲的特征,如社会经济和行为因素,在决定儿童营养状况方面比项目因素的普遍性更具影响力。此外,还发现个人因素显示出营养不良在邦和村庄层面存在聚集现象。