Poor nutrition weakens children’s immune systems, putting them at a greater risk of falling sick from preventable illnesses such as pneumonia and diarrhea. According to Horton et al. (2008), nearly one-fifth of under-five deaths in the world could be prevented with optimal feeding. Research also suggests that poor nutrition at a young age may have irremediable consequences for brain development, cognitive skills, and ultimately productivity in adult life. Unfortunately, a large share of children in the developing world are malnourished. The question considered in this brief is whether early childbirth (defined as a child being born of a mother younger than 18), which in many countries is the result of child marriage, contributes to under-five malnutrition in a significant way in Mali. The brief is part of a series of similar standardized country-specific briefs on the same topic for a number of countries.
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Data do documento
2017/06/01
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No. do relatório
121635
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Nº do volume
1
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1
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Data de divulgação
2017/11/23
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Disclosed
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Nome do documento
Early childbirth and under-five malnutrition in Mali
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early childbirth;Demographic and Health Survey;share of children;Child Marriage;improved water source;investment fund;lack of education;partnership for education;acute food shortage;weight for age;access to health-care;young age;old mothers;standard deviation;regression analysis;wealth quintile;cognitive skill;stunted child;
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