| DOI: | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102192
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| 论文题名: | Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa |
| 作者: | Thiede B.C.; Strube J.
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| 刊名: | Global Environmental Change
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| ISSN: | 9593780
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| 出版年: | 2020
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| 卷: | 65 | | 语种: | 英语
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| 中文关键词: | Child malnutrition
; Climate variability
; Sub-Saharan Africa
; Vulnerability
; Wasting
; Weight-for-height
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| 英文关键词: | climate variation
; epidemiology
; food availability
; health risk
; high temperature
; knowledge
; malnutrition
; nutritional status
; risk assessment
; vulnerability
; Sub-Saharan Africa
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| 英文摘要: | Climatic variability affects many underlying determinants of child malnutrition, including food availability, access, and utilization. Evidence of the effects of changing temperatures and precipitation on children's nutritional status nonetheless remains limited. Research addressing this knowledge gap is merited given the short- and long-run consequences of malnutrition. We address this issue by estimating the effects of temperature and precipitation anomalies on the weight and wasting status of children ages 0–59 months across 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Linear regression models show that high temperatures and low precipitation are associated with reductions in child weight, and that high temperatures also lead to increased risk of wasting. We find little evidence of substantively meaningful differences in these effects across sub-populations of interest. Our results underscore the vulnerability of young children to climatic variability and its second-order economic and epidemiological effects. The study also highlights the corresponding need to design and assess interventions to effectively mitigate these impacts. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168239
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| Appears in Collections: | 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: | The Pennsylvania State University, United States
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Thiede B.C.,Strube J.. Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa[J]. Global Environmental Change,2020-01-01,65
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