gigs package - new egen extensions for international newborn and child growth standards

Simon Parker (), Linda Vesel and Eric Ohuma
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Simon Parker: MARCH Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

UK Stata Conference 2023 from Stata Users Group

Abstract: Children’s growth status is an important measure commonly used as a proxy indicator of advancements in a country’s health, human capital and economic development. Understanding how and why child growth patterns have changed is necessary for characterising global health inequalities. Sustainable development goal 3.2 aims to reduce preventable newborn deaths by at least 12 deaths per 1000 live births and child deaths to 25 per 1000 live births (WHO/UNICEF, 2019). However, large gaps remain in achieving these goals: currently 54 and 64 (of 194) countries will miss the targets for child (

Date: 2023-09-10
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