Malnutrition in Young Children and their Mothers in Timor-Leste

According to the Timor-Leste Demographic and Health Survey, in 2016 about 46 percent of all children less than five years old are stunted, 24 percent are wasted, and 40 percent are anemic. Rural children are more at risk of being malnourished than...

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Main Authors:	Hall, Andrew, Hyder, Ziauddin, Karyadi, Elvina
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	STUNTING MALNUTRITION WASTING STATURE CHILD HEALTH MATERNAL HEALTH NUTRITION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/169421597377261674/Malnutrition-in-Young-Children-and-their-Mothers-in-Timor-Leste http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34374

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spelling	okr-10986-343742021-09-17T01:21:05Z Malnutrition in Young Children and their Mothers in Timor-Leste Hall, Andrew Hyder, Ziauddin Karyadi, Elvina STUNTING MALNUTRITION WASTING STATURE CHILD HEALTH MATERNAL HEALTH NUTRITION According to the Timor-Leste Demographic and Health Survey, in 2016 about 46 percent of all children less than five years old are stunted, 24 percent are wasted, and 40 percent are anemic. Rural children are more at risk of being malnourished than urban children; boys are at greater risk than girls of being malnourished in their first two years of life; and thin mothers are at risk of having wasted or thin children. Only children of mothers in the richest wealth group and with the highest level of education are at lower risk of being stunted, but the differences are not large. Breastfeeding practices are better in poor and less well-educated women than among the wealthiest and best-educated women. The diversity of the complementary diet of children was generally poor. The coverage of vaccinations in Timor-Leste is generally low. The majority of households drink safe water, but children in poor households that use unprotected water sources are at greater risk of being stunted. The short stature of mothers may take a generation or more to eliminate. Delaying marriage and pregnancy until the age of 20 years, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), could be an important intervention. Interventions during pregnancy for thin, small women may help prevent low-birthweight babies and malnutrition early in childhood. 2020-08-21T14:01:25Z 2020-08-21T14:01:25Z 2020-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/169421597377261674/Malnutrition-in-Young-Children-and-their-Mothers-in-Timor-Leste http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34374 English Health, Nutrition and Population Discussion Paper; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Timor-Leste
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description	According to the Timor-Leste Demographic and Health Survey, in 2016 about 46 percent of all children less than five years old are stunted, 24 percent are wasted, and 40 percent are anemic. Rural children are more at risk of being malnourished than urban children; boys are at greater risk than girls of being malnourished in their first two years of life; and thin mothers are at risk of having wasted or thin children. Only children of mothers in the richest wealth group and with the highest level of education are at lower risk of being stunted, but the differences are not large. Breastfeeding practices are better in poor and less well-educated women than among the wealthiest and best-educated women. The diversity of the complementary diet of children was generally poor. The coverage of vaccinations in Timor-Leste is generally low. The majority of households drink safe water, but children in poor households that use unprotected water sources are at greater risk of being stunted. The short stature of mothers may take a generation or more to eliminate. Delaying marriage and pregnancy until the age of 20 years, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), could be an important intervention. Interventions during pregnancy for thin, small women may help prevent low-birthweight babies and malnutrition early in childhood.
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author	Hall, Andrew Hyder, Ziauddin Karyadi, Elvina
author_facet	Hall, Andrew Hyder, Ziauddin Karyadi, Elvina
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title	Malnutrition in Young Children and their Mothers in Timor-Leste
title_short	Malnutrition in Young Children and their Mothers in Timor-Leste
title_full	Malnutrition in Young Children and their Mothers in Timor-Leste
title_fullStr	Malnutrition in Young Children and their Mothers in Timor-Leste
title_full_unstemmed	Malnutrition in Young Children and their Mothers in Timor-Leste
title_sort	malnutrition in young children and their mothers in timor-leste
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/169421597377261674/Malnutrition-in-Young-Children-and-their-Mothers-in-Timor-Leste http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34374
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