Poverty and Nutritional Health of the Child: Some Evidence from 2005 Demographic and Health Survey of Congo - Health

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Volume 7, Issue 11 (November 2015)

ISSN Print: 1949-4998 ISSN Online: 1949-5005

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Poverty and Nutritional Health of the Child: Some Evidence from 2005 Demographic and Health Survey of Congo ()

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2015.711161 2,526 Downloads 3,448 Views Citations

Author(s)

Samuel Ambapour¹, Jean Christophe Okandza², Hylod Armel Moussana¹

Affiliation(s)

¹Institut National de la Statistique, Brazzaville, République du Congo.
²Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Université Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, République du Congo.

ABSTRACT

The objective of this study is to identify the ways in which poverty could affect the nutritional health of the child and to analyze the strength of these links. On the whole, it appears that the relationship between poverty (measured by the wealth index) and health of the child (measured by an anthropometric index) is positive and highly significant.

KEYWORDS

Wealth Index, Nutritional Health of the Child, Height for Age, Z-Score

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Ambapour, S. , Okandza, J. and Moussana, H. (2015) Poverty and Nutritional Health of the Child: Some Evidence from 2005 Demographic and Health Survey of Congo. Health, 7, 1466-1476. doi: 10.4236/health.2015.711161.

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