Clinical Pediatrics: Open Access
Open Access
ISSN: 2572-0775
ISSN: 2572-0775
Department of Economics, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Research Article
Environmental and Socio-Economic Drivers of Child Anthropometric Failures in Selected Countries of South Asia
Author(s): Sabeen Saif* and Sofia Anwar
The pervasiveness of malnutrition among children under five is unacceptably high in South Asia. Assessment of overall burden of malnutrition with summation of Gomez and Waterlow’s three class divisions in Svedberg formulated Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) and Nandy’s revised CIAF have overlooked the incidence of over nutrition and their possible connections with other subgroups. This study proposes a new scheme; an extended version of CIAF as developed by Kuiti and Bose, to accurately estimates the prevalence of anthropometric failures. The study also examines the effects of socio-economic and environmental variables on child malnutrition in selected South Asian countries including Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. For empirical analysis, panel co-integration technique is employed by using data for the period 1990 to 2018. All the variables are stationary a.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2572-0775.23.8.249