The economic and nutrition transition in Equatorial Guinea coincided with a double burden of over- and under nutrition

Estefanía Custodio, Miguel Ángel Descalzo, Jesús Roche, Laura Molina, Ignacio Sánchez, Magdalena Lwanga, Alberto Manuel Torres, Eduardo Fernández-Zincke, Cristina Bernis, Eduardo Villamor and Ana Baylin

Economics & Human Biology, 2010, vol. 8, issue 1, 80-87

Abstract: We assess trends in children's nutritional status in Equatorial Guinea, a country in socioeconomic transition. Nationally representative samples were conducted in 1997, at the start of the economic take off, and again in 2004. Children aged 0-60 months were included in the surveys (N = 436, 552). Both surveys included a sociodemographic, dietary and health questionnaire, and anthropometric measurements from which height-for-age (HAZ); weight-for-age (WAZ) and weight-for-height (WHZ) Z-scores were calculated. Between 1997 and 2004, the prevalence of child overweight for all children increased from 21.8% to 31.7%, especially in urban areas (from 18.2% to 29.4%, p = 0.01). Stunting prevalence among children >=2 years old decreased (from 57.9% to 45.3%, pÂ

Keywords: Nutrition; transition; Children; Africa; Equatorial; Guinea; Overweight; Stunting; Malnutrition; Economic; development; Height; Physical; stature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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