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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102192
	Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa
	Thiede B.C.; Strube J.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0094-8276
卷号	65
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
英文关键词	climate variation; epidemiology; food availability; health risk; high temperature; knowledge; malnutrition; nutritional status; risk assessment; vulnerability; Sub-Saharan Africa
语种	英语
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/170908
作者单位	The Pennsylvania State University, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Thiede B.C.,Strube J.. Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa[J],2020,65.
APA	Thiede B.C.,&Strube J..(2020).Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa.Global Environmental Change,65.
MLA	Thiede B.C.,et al."Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa".Global Environmental Change 65(2020).